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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: 23.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780199794850

ISBN 10:   0199794855
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   08 December 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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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<br> 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<p><br> 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<p><br> The essays teem with rich information and penetrating insights. --The Journal of American History<p><br>

'Brilliant' and 'groundbreaking' are much over-used adjectives in blurbs for academic works, but their appearance on the back covr 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 for future collaborations. Highly recommended. --CHOICE The essays teem with rich information and penetrating insights. --The Journal of American History

<br> 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<p><br>

<br> 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<p><br> 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<p><br>

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

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