Land and freedom : law, property rights and the British diaspora / edited by A.R. Buck, John McLaren, Nancy E. Wright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buck, A. R.

McLaren, John, 1940-

Wright, Nancy E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Real property--North America.

Real property.

Real property--Australasia.

Right of property--North America.

Right of property.

Right of property--Australasia.

Great Britain--Colonies--America.

Great Britain.

Colonies.

America.

Great Britain--Colonies--Oceania.

Oceania.

Australasia.

North America.

Physical Description:

xvii, 201 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate/Dartmouth, [2001]

Contents:

Part 1 Origins

1 Husbanding the Earth and Hedging out the Poor / Laura Brace 5

Part 2 The Empire of Property

2 Colonisation, Civilisation and Cultivation: Early Victorians' Theories of Property Rights and Sovereignty / Pat Moloney 23

3 'Strangers in their own land': Capitalism, Dispossession and the Law / A.R. Buck 39

Part 3 The Land Question

4 'They seem to argue that Custom has made a Higher Law': Formal and Informal Law on the Frontier / Peter Karsten 63

5 The Recognition of Aboriginal Status and Laws in the Supreme Court of New South Wales under Forbes CJ, 1824-1836 / Bruce Kercher 83

6 Property Rights and the Discourse of Improvement in Nineteenth-Century New South Wales / Nancy E. Wright, A.R. Buck 103

7 Raupatu: The Punitive Confiscation of Maori Land in the 1860s / Bryan Gilling 117

8 The Canadian Doukhobors and the Land Question: Religious Communalists in a Fee-Simple World / John McLaren 135

Part 4 Challenges

9 Aboriginal Title and the State's Fiduciary Obligations / Stuart Rush, Q.C. 155

10 Freedom, Serfdom and Internet Governance: Private Domain or Cybercommons? / Paul Havemann 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754622096

OCLC:

46909786