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Author Ford, Lisa, 1974-

Title Settler sovereignty : jurisdiction and indigenous people in America and Australia, 1788-1836 / Lisa Ford.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 313 pages) : maps.
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Series Harvard historical studies ; 166
Harvard historical studies ; v. 166.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-299) and index.
Contents Jurisdiction, territory, and sovereignty in empire -- Pluralism as policy -- Indigenous jurisdiction and spatial order -- Legality and lawlessness -- The local limits of jurisdiction -- Farmbrough's fathoming and transitions in Georgia -- Lego'me and territoriality in New South Wales -- Perfect settler sovereignty.
Summary In a brilliant comparative study of law and imperialism, Lisa Ford argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America and Australia defined indigenous theft and violence as crime. This occurred, not at the moment of settlement or federation, but in the second quarter of the nineteenth century when notions of statehood, sovereignty, empire, and civilization were in rapid, global flux. Ford traces the emergence of modern settler sovereignty in everyday contests between settlers and indigenous people in early national Georgia and the colony of New South Wales. In both places before 1820, most settlers and indigenous people understood their conflicts as war, resolved disputes with diplomacy, and relied on shared notions like reciprocity and retaliation to address frontier theft and violence. This legal pluralism, however, was under stress as new, global statecraft linked sovereignty to the exercise of perfect territorial jurisdiction. In Georgia, New South Wales, and elsewhere, settler sovereignty emerged when, at the same time in history, settlers rejected legal pluralism and moved to control or remove indigenous peoples.
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Subject Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Georgia -- History.
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Georgia.
History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Australia.
New South Wales.
Australia.
Sydney (NSW SI56-05)
Hawkesbury River area (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
New South Wales (N.S.W.)
United States (USA)
Crime -- Against persons.
History -- Battles -- Hawkesbury.
Indigenous peoples -- North America.
Land rights -- Access rights.
Law -- International law.
Politics and Government -- Sovereignty.
History.
Law -- Land -- Overseas.
Law enforcement -- Offences -- Murder.
Race relations -- Violent.
Settlement and contacts -- Colonisation.
Settlement and contacts -- Settlers.
Law -- Legal system -- Courts.
Law enforcement.
Law enforcement -- Criminal law and procedure.
Law -- Jurisprudence.
15.59 history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: other.
LAW -- Indigenous Peoples.
New South Wales.
America.
Australia.
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Georgia -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History.
United States of America.
Australia.
History.
Colonialism.
Indigenous peoples.
Indians.
Aboriginal peoples.
Legal status.
Sovereignty.
Georgia.
Chronological Term 1750-1800.
1800-1850.
Geschichte 1780-1850.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Jurisdiction and indigenous people in America and Australia, 1788-1836
Other Form: Print version: (DLC) 2009013937 (OCoLC)318057899
ISBN 9780674053830 (electronic book)
0674053834 (electronic book)
9780674035652 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0674035658 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9780674061880
0674061888