Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Table of Cases -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part One: Origins -- Introduction -- 1 Husbanding the Earth and Hedging out the Poor -- Part Two: The Empire of Property -- Introduction -- 2 Colonisation, Civilisation and Cultivation: Early Victorians' Theories of Property Rights and Sovereignty -- 3 'Strangers in their own land' : Capitalism, Dispossession and the Law -- Part Three: The Land Question -- Introduction
4 'They seem to argue that Custom has made a Higher Law' : Formal and Informal Law on the Frontier -- 5 The Recognition of Aboriginal Status and Laws in the Supreme Court of New South Wales under Forbes CJ,1824-1836 -- 6 Property Rights and the Discourse of Improvement in Nineteenth-Century New South Wales -- 7 Raupatu: The Punitive Confiscation of Maori Land in the 1860s -- 8 The Canadian Doukhobors and the Land Question: Religious Communalists in a Fee-Simple World -- Part Four: Challenges -- Introduction -- 9 Aboriginal Title and the State's Fiduciary Obligations
10 Freedom, Serfdom and Internet Governance: Private Domain or Cybercommons? -- Index
