Law, History, Colonialism The Reach of Empire Book

	General editor's introduction
	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Terminal legality: imperialism and the (de)composition of law	9
2	Law's empire: chartering English colonies on the American mainland in the seventeenth century	26
3	Reflections on the rule of law: the Georgian colonies of New South Wales and Upper Canada, 1788-1837	46
4	'Race' definition run amuck: 'slaying the dragon of Eskimo status' before the Supreme Court of Canada, 1939	65
5	The paradox of 'ultra-democratic' government: indigenous civil rights in nineteenth-century New Zealand, Canada and Australia	78
6	'When there's no safety in numbers': fear and the franchise in South Africa - the case of Natal	91
7	Making 'mad' populations in settler colonies: the work of law and medicine in the creation of the colonial asylum	106
8	Towards a 'taxonomy' for the common law: legal history and the recognition of Aboriginal customary law	125
9	The problem of Aboriginal evidence in early colonial New South Wales	140
10	Assuming judicial control: George Brown's narrative defence of the 'New Britain raid'	156
11	The fate of Maori land rights in early colonial New Zealand: the limits of the Treaty of Waitangi and the doctrine of Aboriginal title	173
12	'Because it does not make sense': sovereignty's power in the case of Delgamuukw v. The Queen 1997	190
13	Land, conveyancing reform and the problem of the married woman in colonial Australia	207
14	The construction of property rights on imperial frontiers: the case of the New Zealand Native Land Purchase Ordinance of 1846	221
15	International law - recognizing the Third World? Law and conflicts over water in the Krishna River Basin	243
16	Historians and native title: the question of evidence	261
17	'Race', gender and nation in history and law	277
	Index	301