Native claims
Subtitle: indigenous law against empire, 1500-1920
By: edited by Saliha Belmessous
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199794850
Subjects: Claims; Indigenous people; Legal status, laws; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the problem of indigenous claim making in colonial history / Saliha Belmessous; title: Possessing empire : Iberian claims and interpolity law / Lauren Benton; title: Law, land and legal rhetoric in colonial New Spain : a look at the changing rhetoric of indigenous Americans in the sixteenth century / R. Jovita Baber; title: Court and chronicle : a native Andean's engagement with Spanish colonial law / Rolena Adorno; title: Powhatan legal claims / Andrew Fitzmaurice; title: Wabanaki versus French and English claims in northeastern North America, c. 1715 / Saliha Belmessous; title: "Chief princes and owners of all" : Native American appeals to the crown in the early modern British Atlantic / Craig Yirush; title: Framing and reframing the agon : contesting narratives and counter-narratives on Maori property rights and political constitutionalism, 1840-1861 / Mark Hickford; title: "Bring this paper to the good governor" : indigenous petitioning in Britain's Australian colonies / Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell; title: The Native Land Court : making property in nineteenth-century New Zealand / Christopher Hilliard; title: African and European initiatives in the transformation of land tenure in colonial Lagos (West Africa), 1840-1920 / Kristin Mann; title: Afterword : the normative force of the past / Duncan Ivison.