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Lords of the land : indigenous property rights and the jurisprudence of empire /

Through focusing on the political history of New Zealand during its imperial settlement, this book offers a fresh assessment of the history of indigenous property rights. It shows how native title became a constitutional frame within which political authority was formed and contested at the heart of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hickford, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Oxford studies in modern legal history.
Subjects:
Māori (New Zealand people) > Land tenure.
Māori (New Zealand people) > Legal status, laws, etc.
Land settlement > Law and legislation > New Zealand.
Land settlement > New Zealand > History > 19th century.
Colonisation intérieure > Nouvelle-Zélande > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Land settlement
Land settlement > Law and legislation
Māori (New Zealand people) > Land tenure
New Zealand
1800-1899
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Through focusing on the political history of New Zealand during its imperial settlement, this book offers a fresh assessment of the history of indigenous property rights. It shows how native title became a constitutional frame within which political authority was formed and contested at the heart of empire and the colonial peripheries.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 523 pages) : maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-499) and index.
ISBN:9780191731273
0191731277