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Fragile settlements : Aboriginal peoples, law, and resistance in south-west Australia and prairie Canada /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nettelbeck, Amanda (Author), Smandych, Russell, 1956- (Author), Knafla, Louis A., 1935- (Author), Foster, Robert, 1958- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2016]
Series:Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Legal status, laws, etc. > Prairie Provinces > History > 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians > Colonization > Australia > Western Australia > History > 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians > Legal status, laws, etc. > Australia > Western Australia > History > 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians > Colonization > Australia > South Australia > History > 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians > Legal status, laws, etc. > Australia > South Australia > History > 19th century.
Indians of North America > Colonization > Prairie Provinces > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > Australia > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > Canada > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • British law and colonial legal regimes
  • The foundations of colonial policing
  • Policing Aboriginal people on the settler frontier
  • Co-optive policing : native police, trackers, and scouts
  • Agents of protection and civilization
  • Aboriginal peoples and settlers in the courts
  • Agents of the church
  • Agency and resistance : Aboriginal responses to colonial authority
  • Colonizing and decolonizing the past.