{"product_id":"law-history-colonialism-the-reach-of-empire-studies-in-imperialism-9780719081958","title":"Law History Colonialism The Reach of Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores issues including the judicial construction of racial categories, the gendered definitions of nation-states, the historical construction of citizenship, sovereignty and land rights, the limits to legality and the charting of empire, constructions of madness among colonised people, reforming property rights of married women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Colonialism’s legality\u003cbr\u003e1. Terminal legality: Imperialism and the (de) composition of law - Peter Fitzpatrick\u003cbr\u003e2. Colonization and the legal cartography of authority: English intrusions on the American mainland in the seventeenth century - Christopher Tomlins\u003cbr\u003e3.  Reflections on the rule of law: the Georgian colonies of New south Wales and Upper Canada 1788-1837 - John McLaren\u003cbr\u003ePart TwoI: Imperialism and citizenship\u003cbr\u003e4. Race definition run amuck: ‘Slaying the dragon of Eskimo status’ before the supreme court of Canada, 1939 - Constance Backhouse\u003cbr\u003e5. The paradox of ‘Ultra Democratic’ governments: Indigenous peoples’ civil rights in nineteenth-century New Zealand, Canada and Australia - Patricia Grimshaw, Robert Reynolds and Shurlee Swain\u003cbr\u003e6.  ‘When There’s No Safety in Numbers’: Fear and the franchise in the Union of  South Africa, the case of Natal - Julie Evans and David Philips\u003cbr\u003e7.  Making ‘Mad’ populations in settler colonies: the work of law and medicine in the creation of the colonial asylum - Catharine Coleborne\u003cbr\u003ePart ThreeI: Justice, custom and the common law\u003cbr\u003e8.  Towards a “taxonomy” for the common law: Legal history and the recognition of Aboriginal customary law - Mark Walters\u003cbr\u003e9.  The problem of Aboriginal evidence in early colonial NSW - Nancy Wright\u003cbr\u003e10.  Assuming judicial control: George Brown’s narrative defence of the ‘New Britain Raid’ - Helen Gardner\u003cbr\u003ePartFour: Land, sovereignty and imperial frontiers\u003cbr\u003e11.  The early fate of Maori land rights in Aotearoa\/New Zealand - Ann Parsonson\u003cbr\u003e12.  ‘Because it does not make any sense’: Sovereignty’s power in the case of Delgamuukw v. The Queen, 1997 - John Borrows\u003cbr\u003e13.  Land, conveyancing reform and the problem of the married woman in colonial Australia - Hilary Golder \u0026amp; Diane Kirkby\u003cbr\u003e14. The construction of property rights on imperial frontiers: The case of the New Zealand ‘Native Land Purchase Ordinance’ of 1846 - John Weaver\u003cbr\u003ePart Five: Colonialism's legacy\u003cbr\u003e15.  International law – Recolonising the Third World?: Law and conflicts over water in the Krishna Basin - Radha D’Souza\u003cbr\u003e16.  Historians and native title: The question of evidence - Christine Choo\u003cbr\u003e17. Race, gender, and history in three societies: Canada, New Zealand and Australia - Constance Backhouse, Ann Curthoys, and Ann Parsonson\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037328769367,"sku":"9780719081958","price":23.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719081958.jpg?v=1750935313","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/law-history-colonialism-the-reach-of-empire-studies-in-imperialism-9780719081958","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}