{"product_id":"settler-sovereignty-by-lisa-ford-9780674061880","title":"Settler Sovereignty","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471533457644,"sku":"9780674061880","price":61.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674061880-settler-sovereignty.jpg?v=1775246005","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/settler-sovereignty-by-lisa-ford-9780674061880","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}