Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada (Law and Society) - Hardcover

Nettelbeck, Amanda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774830883 ISBN 13: 9780774830881

Publisher: UBC Press, 2016

Synopsis

Fragile Settlements compares the processes through which British colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous peoples in southwest Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period, as a humanitarian response to settlers' increased demand for land, Britain's Colonial Office moved to protect Indigenous peoples by making them subjects under British law. This book highlights the parallels and divergences between these connected British frontiers by examining how colonial actors and institutions interpreted and applied the principle of law in their interaction with Indigenous peoples 'on the ground.'

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Book Description:

Fragile Settlements compares the historical processes through which British colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in southwest Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century.

About the Author:

Amanda Nettelbeck is professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. Russell C. Smandych is professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Manitoba. Louis A. Knafla is professor emeritus at the University of Calgary. Robert Foster is associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Adelaide.

About this edition

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0774830883
• ISBN 13: 9780774830881
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336