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Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920

Edited by: Saliha Belmessous

ISBN13: 9780199386116
Published: August 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
Country of Publication: USA
Format: Paperback
Price: £39.49
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This groundbreaking collection of essays shows that, from the moment European expansion commenced through to the twentieth century, indigenous peoples from America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand drafted legal strategies to contest dispossession.

The story of indigenous resistance to European colonization is well known. But legal resistance has been wrongly understood to be a relatively recent phenomenon. These essays demonstrate how indigenous peoples throughout the world opposed colonization not only with force, but also with ideas. They made claims to territory using legal arguments drawn from their own understanding of a law that applies between peoples - a kind of law of nations, comparable to that being developed by Europeans.

The contributors to this volume argue that in the face of indigenous legal arguments, European justifications of colonization should be understood not as an original and originating legal discourse but, at least in part, as a form of counter-claim.

Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920 brings together the work of eminent social and legal historians, literary scholars, and philosophers, including Rolena Adorno, Lauren Benton, Duncan Ivison, and Kristin Mann. Their combined expertise makes this volume uniquely expansive in its coverage of a crucial issue in global and colonial history.

The various essays treat sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Latin America, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America (including the British colonies and French Canada), and nineteenth-century Australasia and Africa. There is no other book that examines the issue of European dispossession of native peoples in such a way.

Subjects:
Legal History
Contents:
Introduction: The Problem of Indigenous Claim Making in Colonial History, Saliha Belmessous

Chapter 1: Possessing Empire: Iberian Claims and Interpolity Law, Lauren Benton
Chapter 2: 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
Chapter 3: Court and Chronicle: A Native Andean's Engagement with Spanish Colonial Law, Rolena Adorno
Chapter 4: Powhatan Legal Claims, Andrew Fitzmaurice
Chapter 5: Wabanaki versus French and English Claims in Northeastern North America, c.
1715, Saliha Belmessous
Chapter 6: "Chief Princes and Owners of All": Native American Appeals to the Crown in the Early Modern British Atlantic, Craig Yirush
Chapter 7: Framing and Reframing the Agon: Contesting Narratives and Counter-Narratives on Maori Property Rights and Political Constitutionalism, 1840-1861, Mark Hickford
Chapter 8: "Bring this paper to the Good Governor": Indigenous Petitioning in Britain's Australian Colonies, Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell
Chapter 9: The Native Land Court: Making Property in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, Christopher Hilliard
Chapter 10: African and European Initiatives in the Transformation of Land Tenure in Colonial Lagos (West Africa), 1840-1920, Kristin Mann
Afterword: The Normative Force of the Past, Duncan Ivison

Contributors
Index