Native claims : indigenous law against empire, 1500-1920 / edited by Saliha Belmessous.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belmessous, Saliha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc--History.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Claims--History.

Indigenous peoples--Claims.

History.

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Contents:

Introduction : the problem of indigenous claim making in colonial history / Saliha Belmessous

Possessing empire : Iberian claims and interpolity law / Lauren Benton

Law, land and legal rhetoric in colonial New Spain : a look at the changing rhetoric of indigenous Americans in the sixteenth century / R. Jovita Baber

Court and chronicle : a native Andean's engagement with Spanish colonial law / Rolena Adorno

Powhatan legal claims / Andrew Fitzmaurice

Wabanaki versus French and English claims in northeastern North America, c. 1715 / Saliha Belmessous

"Chief princes and owners of all" : Native American appeals to the crown in the early modern British Atlantic / Craig Yirush

Framing and reframing the agon : contesting narratives and counter-narratives on Maori property rights and political constitutionalism, 1840-1861 / Mark Hickford

"Bring this paper to the good governor" : indigenous petitioning in Britain's Australian colonies / Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell

The Native Land Court : making property in nineteenth-century New Zealand / Christopher Hilliard

African and European initiatives in the transformation of land tenure in colonial Lagos (West Africa), 1840-1920 / Kristin Mann

Afterword : the normative force of the past / Duncan Ivison.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199794850

0199794855

OCLC:

703871436