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Author:   Saliha Belmessous (Senior Research Fellow in History, Senior Research Fellow in History, University of New South Wales, Maroubra, Australia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780199386116

ISBN 10:   0199386110
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   21 August 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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"

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these strong and sharp essays with their insistence upon voice and presence in particular historical settings together make a decidedly contemporary point. One cannot help but read these essays with some knowledge, however vague for some readers, of the shameful histories of neglect and loss that occurred notwithstanding the proud efforts and noble as well as diverse histories of resistance and loss. The underlying message is that hearing the indigenous voice is not enough. In enabling us to hear those indigenous voices of bygone times, this powerful set of essays enjoins us to listen to their contemporary claims in what is an equally if not more - for it is with us now - compelling and difficult present. --Edinburgh Law Review 'Brilliant' and 'groundbreaking' are much over-used adjectives in blurbs for academic works, but their appearance on the back cover of this edited collection is fully deserved... an international and interdisciplinary work with profound regional implications, and will give considerable encouragement to those in the historical and legal professions. --BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly Native Claims is a different sort of book. The contributors are leading scholars in their respective fields...Their standards of writing are high, and their specific historical cases are nicely contextualized for nonspecialist readers. This makes for a volume that is both an important scholarly contribution and an accessible collection of writing. Native Claims will surely provoke discussion among a wide variety of historians, and it will merit a place on the syllabi of courses in Atlantic history, world history, colonial studies, ethnohistory, and frontier studies. --Hispanic AmericanHistorical Review Tightly focused yet wide-ranging...Books rarely bring together essays from the very different fields of Latin America, British America, Australasia, and West Africa, and this useful, groundbreaking work should be a model f

'Brilliant' and 'groundbreaking' are much over-used adjectives in blurbs for academic works, but their appearance on the back cover of this edited collection is fully deserved...[A]n international and interdisciplinary work with profound regional implications, and will give considerable encouragement to those in the historical and legal professions. --BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly Native Claims is a different sort of book. The contributors are leading scholars in their respective fields...Their standards of writing are high, and their specific historical cases are nicely contextualized for nonspecialist readers. This makes for a volume that is both an important scholarly contribution and an accessible collection of writing. Native Claims will surely provoke discussion among a wide variety of historians, and it will merit a place on the syllabi of courses in Atlantic history, world history, colonial studies, ethnohistory, and frontier studies. --Hispanic American Historical Review Tightly focused yet wide-ranging...Books rarely bring together essays from the very different fields of Latin America, British America, Australasia, and West Africa, and this useful, groundbreaking work should be a model for future collaborations. Highly recommended. --CHOICE The essays teem with rich information and penetrating insights. --The Journal of American History

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Saliha Belmessous is Senior Research Fellow in History, University of New South Wales.

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