Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)

A Collection That Focuses On The Role Of European Law In Colonial Contexts And engages With Recent Treatments Of This Theme In known Works Written Largely From Within The Framework Of Postcolonial Studies, Which Implicitly Discuss Colonial Deployments Of European Law And Politics Via The Concept Of Ideology. Edited By Shaunnagh Dorsett, Ian Hunter. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Global Justice and Regional Metaphysics: On the Critical History of the Law of Nature and Nations....Pages 11-29 Justice and Imperialism: On the Very Idea of a Universal Standard....Pages 31-48 Front Matter....Pages 49-49 The Legalities of English Colonizing: Discourses of European Intrusion upon the Americas, c. 1490–1830....Pages 51-70 The Uses of the Rule of Law in British Colonial Societies in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 71-90 “Your sovereign and Our Father”: The Imperial Crown and the Idea of Legal-Ethnohistory....Pages 91-108 The Justification of King Leopold II’s Congo Enterprise by Sir Travers Twiss....Pages 109-126 Front Matter....Pages 127-127 Samuel Marsden’s Civility: The Transposition of Anglican Civil Authority to Australasia....Pages 129-148 The Limits of Jurisdiction: Law, Governance, and Indigenous Peoples in Colonized Australia....Pages 149-168 The Pig and the Peace: Transposing Order in Early Sydney....Pages 169-186 William Pember Reeves (1857–1932): Lawyer-Politician, Historian, and “Rough Architect” of the New Zealand State....Pages 187-205 Front Matter....Pages 207-207 Sovereignty as Governance in the Early New Zealand Crown Colony Period....Pages 209-228 Imperial Policy, Colonial Government, and Indigenous Testimony in South Australia and New Zealand in the 1840s....Pages 229-247 Law and Politics in the Constitutional Delineation of Indigenous Property Rights in 1840s New Zealand....Pages 249-268 Back Matter....Pages 269-276 'Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought' examines topics such as European law and global justice, transpositions of empire, the frontiers of justice and the crown in colonial New Zealand