Title Settler sovereignty : jurisdiction and indigenous people in America and Australia, 1788-1836 / Lisa Ford

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 313 pages) : maps Series Harvard historical studies ; 166 Harvard historical studies ; v. 166. Contents Jurisdiction, territory, and sovereignty in empire -- Pluralism as policy -- Indigenous jurisdiction and spatial order -- Legality and lawlessness -- The local limits of jurisdiction -- Farmbrough's fathoming and transitions in Georgia -- Lego'me and territoriality in New South Wales -- Perfect settler sovereignty Summary In a brilliant comparative study of law and imperialism, Lisa Ford argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America and Australia defined indigenous theft and violence as crime. This occurred, not at the moment of settlement or federation, but in the second quarter of the nineteenth century when notions of statehood, sovereignty, empire, and civilization were in rapid, global flux. Ford traces the emergence of modern settler sovereignty in everyday contests between settlers and indigenous people in early national Georgia and the colony of New South Wales. In both places before 1820, most settlers and indigenous people understood their conflicts as war, resolved disputes with diplomacy, and relied on shared notions like reciprocity and retaliation to address frontier theft and violence. This legal pluralism, however, was under stress as new, global statecraft linked sovereignty to the exercise of perfect territorial jurisdiction. In Georgia, New South Wales, and elsewhere, settler sovereignty emerged when, at the same time in history, settlers rejected legal pluralism and moved to control or remove indigenous peoples Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-299) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Georgia -- History Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History Crime -- Against persons History -- Battles -- Hawkesbury Indigenous peoples -- North America Land rights -- Access rights Law -- International law Politics and Government -- Sovereignty History Law -- Land -- Overseas Law enforcement -- Offences -- Murder Race relations -- Violent Settlement and contacts -- Colonisation Settlement and contacts -- Settlers Law -- Legal system -- Courts Law enforcement Law enforcement -- Criminal law and procedure Law -- Jurisprudence 15.59 history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: other. LAW -- Indigenous Peoples. Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. Kolonisierung Souveränität Territorialität Rechtsprechung Indigenes Volk Strafvollstreckung Colonists. Native peoples. Legislation. Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Georgia -- History. Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History. United States of America. Australia. History. Colonialism. Indigenous peoples. Indians. Aboriginal peoples. Legal status. Sovereignty. Indianer -- juridik och lagstiftning -- historia -- Nordamerika -- Georgia. Aboriginer -- juridik och lagstiftning -- historia -- Australien -- New South Wales. Australia Sydney (NSW SI56-05) Hawkesbury River area (N Sydney NSW SI56-05) New South Wales (N.S.W.) United States (USA) Georgia New South Wales New South Wales America. Australia. Georgia. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674053830 0674053834

Other Titles Jurisdiction and indigenous people in America and Australia, 1788-1836

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