A different kind of "subject"
Subtitle: colonial law in Aboriginal-European relations in nineteenth century Western Australia 1829-61
By: Ann Hunter
Series: Legal history -- 14; Legal history (North Ryde, N.S.W.) -- 14.
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781921875557
Subjects: Government policy; Aboriginal Australians; Legal status, laws; History
Description: Describes the approach taken by British and colonial governments towards Aboriginal European relations in Western Australia, focusing on British colonial law, during the period where magistrates and judges were recruited from the among the settlers, prior to the establishment of formal Supreme Court in 1861.
Notes: First published in 2011. "A different kind of subject" is a special book issue and volume 14 of the journal "Legal History", ISSN 1833-7155, which is published by Australian Scholarly Publishing.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-295).

Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.
Table of contents: title: Part 1.; title: Legalistic devices and Aboriginal-European relations 1829-1838 -- -- Part 2.; title: The impact of humanitarian networks on the British government in the 1830s and 1840s -- -- Part 3.; title: The contests between formal legal equality and colonial governance in Western Australia in the early 1840s -- -- Part 4.; title: Labour on the land.