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Settler Sovereignty
Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788–1836
Series: Harvard Historical Studies
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Settler Sovereignty is ideal for readers interested in legal history, imperialism, indigenous studies, and comparative colonial studies. It is particularly suited to scholars, students, and informed readers seeking a nuanced analysis of colonial governance and indigenous-settler relations in the nineteenth century.
In a comparative study of law and imperialism, Ford argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America and Australia defined indigenous theft and violence as crime. Ford traces the emergence of modern settler sovereignty in contests between settlers and indigenous people in Georgia and the colony of New South Wales.
This book changes our understanding of the history of colonization. Lisa Ford has written a fascinating account of how and why early nineteenth-century Anglo-American settlers developed a newly expansive view of their power over indigenous people. -- Stuart Banner, author of Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska Moving deftly between the North American mainland and New South Wales, and between the global and the local, Lisa Ford's elegant study brings new levels of knowledge and interpretive sophistication to the history of Anglophone settler colonialism. Her focus is the 'legal trinity' of classic nation statehood--sovereignty, jurisdiction, and territory. Her innovation is to locate the realization of that trinity in the daily interactions of settlers with their reluctant indigenous neighbors. Ford's impressive research shows that sovereign settler statehood was not achieved by imperial pronouncement but imposed on the ground, using the weapons of criminal law. -- Christopher Tomlins, University of California, Irvine A novel and bold intervention into current debates about the nature of law and violence in the British Empire, this well-written and superbly researched book is a significant contribution to the history of the modern nation state. -- Tim Rowse, University of Western Sydney This is a truly thoughtful analysis based on amazingly thorough research. Ford makes a good case for comparing Georgia and New South Wales, and establishes that a vibrant legal pluralism prevailed in those domains to the 1830s, a new and important finding. -- Peter Karsten, University of Pittsburgh
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In a brilliant comparative study of law and imperialism, Lisa Ford argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America and Australia defined indigenous theft and violence as crime.
This occurred, not at the moment of settlement or federation, but in the second quarter of the nineteenth century when notions of statehood, sovereignty, empire, and civilisation were in rapid, global flux. Ford traces the emergence of modern settler sovereignty in everyday contests between settlers and indigenous people in early national Georgia and the colony of New South Wales.
In both places before 1820, most settlers and indigenous people understood their conflicts as war, resolved disputes with diplomacy, and relied on shared notions like reciprocity and retaliation to address frontier theft and violence. This legal pluralism, however, was under stress as new, global statecraft linked sovereignty to the exercise of perfect territorial jurisdiction.
In Georgia, New South Wales, and elsewhere, settler sovereignty emerged when, at the same time in history, settlers rejected legal pluralism and moved to control or remove indigenous peoples.
Series: Harvard Historical Studies
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In a brilliant comparative study of law and imperialism, Lisa Ford argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America and Australia defined indigenous theft and violence as crime. This occurred, not at the moment of settlement or federation, but in the second quarter of the nineteenth century when notions of statehood, sovereignty, empire, and civilisation were in...Paperback$6199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
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Praised for its rigorous research and thought-provoking insights, the book is described as 'comparative history at its best' by Henry Reynolds, highlighting its detailed scholarship from a decade of study. Stuart Banner commends it for changing our understanding of colonisation by explaining settlers' expanding authority over indigenous peoples, while Peter Karsten notes the important discovery of sustained legal pluralism until the 1830s in these regions.
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ISBN: 9780674061880
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 September 2011
Country: United States
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Illustration: 6 maps
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 499g
Pages: 328
About the Author
Lisa Ford is the author of the prizewinning Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788–1836 and coauthor of Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800–1850. She is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales.
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