Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836

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Lisa Ford

Settler Sovereignty

Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836

Lisa Ford

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English

Harvard Uni.Press Academi
30 September 2011

History; Colonialism & imperialism; Indigenous peoples; Human rights & civil liberties law

Series: Harvard Historical Studies

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 civilization 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.

By: Lisa Ford
Imprint: Harvard Uni.Press Academi
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 166
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9780674061880
ISBN 10: 0674061888
Series: Harvard Historical Studies
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 30 September 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

* Introduction *1. Jurisdiction, Territory and Sovereignty in Empire *2. Pluralism as Policy *3. Indigenous Jurisdiction and Spatial Order *4. Legality and Lawlessness *5. The Limits of Jurisdiction *6. Farmbrough's Fathoming and Transitions in Georgia *7. Lego'me and Territoriality in New South Wales *8. Perfect Settler Sovereignty * Conclusion

Lisa Ford is Lecturer in History at the University of New South Wales.

Reviews for Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836

The key to understanding Australian attitudes to the law lies deep in our history, as Lisa Ford shows with great forensic flair...[This] is comparative history at its best. Ford moves confidently between the two societies and appears equally at home in both. Both the similarities and the differences are revealing. Each study enlightens the other. This is so because the supporting scholarship is so impressive, the fruit, Ford tells us, of ten years' research and reflection. -- Henry Reynolds Australian Book Review 20100401

Joint winner for American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society 2010.
Joint winner of American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society 2010
Joint winner of Littleton-Griswold Prize 2010
Nominated for OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award 2010
Nominated for Willie Lee Rose Prize 2010
Winner of Thomas J. Wilson Prize 2008
Winner of Thomas J. Wilson Prize 2008.