| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 276 pages.) |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history |
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Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Ian Hunter and Shaunnagh Dorsett -- Global justice and regional metaphysics : on the critical history of the law of nature and nations / Ian Hunter -- Justice and imperialism : on the very idea of a universal standard / Duncan Ivison -- The legalities of English colonizing : discourses of European intrusion upon the Americas, c.1490-1830 / Christopher Tomlins -- The uses of the rule of law in British colonial societies in the nineteenth century / John McLaren -- "Your sovereign and our father" : the imperial crown and the idea of legal-ethnohistory / Mark D. Walters -- The justification of King Leopold II's Congo Enterprise by Sir Travers Twiss / Andrew Fitzmauricé -- Samuel Marsden's civility : the transposition of Anglican civil authority in Australasia / Andrew Sharp -- The limits of jurisdiction : law, governance, and indigenous peoples in colonized Australia / Mark Finnane -- The pig and the peace : transposing order in early Sydney / Lisa Ford -- William Pember Reeves (1857-1932) : lawyer-politician, historian, and "rough architect" of the New Zealand state / P.G. McHugh -- Sovereignty as governance in the early New Zealand crown colony period / Shaunnagh Dorsett -- Imperial policy, colonial government, and indigenous testimony in South Australia and New Zealand / Damen Ward -- Law and politics in the constitutional delineation of indigenous property rights in 1840s New Zealand / Mark Hickford |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Colonies -- Law and legislation -- History.
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Rule of law -- Europe -- Colonies -- History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dorsett, Shaunnagh.
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Hunter, Ian, 1949-
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| ISBN |
9780230114388 (electronic bk.) |
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0230114385 (electronic bk.) |
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