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O’Brien is to be commended for the extensive primary-source research she has conducted. * Journal of British Studies * Petitioning for Land offers a powerful lens through which to analyze the complex historical negotiations between First Peoples’ and British colonial governments over land, identity and self-determination. Understanding the value of documents to mobilize communities, subvert authority, and resist colonial oppression informs contemporary usage of petitions by First Peoples, and underscores the need to think of petitions as a significant – but largely overlooked – technology of power. * Eve Darian-Smith, Professor of Anthropology, Law, and Global & International Studies, University of California Irvine, USA *

Petitioning for Land offers a powerful lens through which to analyze the complex historical negotiations between First Peoples' and British colonial governments over land, identity and self-determination. Understanding the value of documents to mobilize communities, subvert authority, and resist colonial oppression informs contemporary usage of petitions by First Peoples, and underscores the need to think of petitions as a significant - but largely overlooked - technology of power. * Eve Darian-Smith, Professor of Anthropology, Law, and Global & International Studies, University of California Irvine, USA *

O'Brien is to be commended for the extensive primary-source research she has conducted. * Journal of British Studies * Petitioning for Land offers a powerful lens through which to analyze the complex historical negotiations between First Peoples' and British colonial governments over land, identity and self-determination. Understanding the value of documents to mobilize communities, subvert authority, and resist colonial oppression informs contemporary usage of petitions by First Peoples, and underscores the need to think of petitions as a significant - but largely overlooked - technology of power. * Eve Darian-Smith, Professor of Anthropology, Law, and Global & International Studies, University of California Irvine, USA *

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Karen O'Brien is Senior Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.

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