Empire and the making of native title : sovereignty, property and indigenous people /
In 1981, a novel question was addressed by an Australian historian, more or less for the first time. Why had the British Crown denied, or failed to recognize, the Aboriginal people's sovereignty and rights in land? Alan Frost argued that this occurred because the British government acted in acc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | In 1981, a novel question was addressed by an Australian historian, more or less for the first time. Why had the British Crown denied, or failed to recognize, the Aboriginal people's sovereignty and rights in land? Alan Frost argued that this occurred because the British government acted in accordance with the international legal conventions of the mid-eighteenth century, or more especially a particular legal decorum called terra nullius, a Latin word meaning a land without a sovereign or a land belonging to no one. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 442 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-431) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108478298 1108478298 |