Rights and redemption
Subtitle: history, law and indigenous people
By: authors, Ann Curthoys ; Ann Genovese ; Alex Reilly.
Contributors: Genovese, Ann.; Reilly, Alex.
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press Ltd
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Coogee, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780868408071
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure; Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc; Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights; Law and anthropology -- Australia; Australia -- Race relations; Australia -- Politics and government
Description: "Aboriginal people have been able to use the courts to try to seek redress, particularly when political options have been limited. To do this they have had to use historical arguments, and as such history and historians have had to enter the courtroom. This highly original book brings together one of Australia's leading historians with two younger legal scholars to examine the ways in which history and the law have interacted in Australia. Far from being an abstract discussion, the book examines hundreds of federal court cases, interviewing judges, litigants, claimants and historians."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.