Native claims : indigenous law against empire, 1500-1920 / edited by Saliha Belmessous.
Native claims : indigenous law against empire, 1500-1920 / edited by Saliha Belmessous.
Native claims : indigenous law against empire, 1500-1920 / edited by Saliha Belmessous.
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Call Numbers
H 2014/5152
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
vii, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: 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...
Publication information
Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
©2012.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"This groundbreaking collection of essays shows that, from the moment European expansion commenced through to the twentieth century, indigenous peoples from America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand drafted legal strategies to contest dispossession. The story of indigenous resistance to European colonization is well known. But legal resistance has...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Native claims : indigenous law against empire, 1500-1920 / edited by Saliha Belmessous.
Portion of title
Indigenous law against empire, 1500-1920.
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Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mitchell Library copy: Jacket filed 2014.
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Date Copyright
©2012.
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Call Numbers
H 2014/5152
Record Identifier
74VKJwz8Jw83
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKJwz8Jw83
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ISBN
0199794855 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780199794850 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
346.04/3208997
MMS ID
991022048209702626
