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100 1 _aHickford, Mark.
245 1 0 _aLords of the land :
_bindigenous property rights and the jurisprudence of empire /
_cMark Hickford.
260 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2011
300 _axxiii, 523 p. :
_bmaps ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aOxford studies in modern legal history
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [463]-499) and index.
505 0 0 _gPreliminaries --
_tAn empire of variations : problems of settlement and the property rights of indigenous populations --
_tIncredulity from a distance : disputing the content of indigenous proprietary entitlements, 1840 to 1844 --
_t"Vague native rights to land" : constitutionalism, native title, and pursuing settling spaces, 1844-1853 --
_tExtricating "native title from its present entanglement" : recognizing diversity and the problem of a liberal constitution --
_tExploring the dynamics and consequences of "occasional association" --
_t"Tribunals independent of a prince", 1859-1862 : exploring the dynamics and consequences of "occasional association", part II --
_gConclusions:
_tConstitutional design and the Treaty of Waitangi : balanced constitutions, native title, and the normativity of political constitutionalism.
505 0 _a1. Preliminaries -- Overture -- forging native title in an empire of variations, 1837 to 1862 -- Chapter outline -- Three key ingredients -- non-justiciability, conceptual incommensurability, or jurisdictional incommensurability: the pre-eminence of politics and political constitutionalism in the making of native title -- The dynamism of native title -- the politics of negotiability and the jurisprudence of empire -- `Lords of the Land' -- mid-nineteenth-century New Zealand was not a place for `Banal Constitutionalism' -- Unravelling and reframing Maori constitutional and political thought on territorial rights -- 2. An Empire of Variations: Problems of Settlement and the Property Rights of Indigenous Populations -- Seeing native title through stadialism and ius gentium entwined -- Trails of transmission to a particular colony and the relevance of empire -- A New Zealand Association advocating `Systematic Colonization' -- From Association to Company -- A corporation acquiring territories -- Several proclamations and a treaty -- Conclusion: conversing with a corporation -- 3. Incredulity from a Distance: Disputing the Content of Indigenous Proprietary Entitlements, 1840 to 1844 -- Disciplining `Adventurers Without Law': the uses of ius gentium, 1840 to 1844 -- Unsettling intelligence, `Disciplining Moments', and the extent of native title -- Conclusion -- 4. 'Vague Native Rights to Land': Constitutionalism, Native Title, and Pursuing Settling Spaces, 1844-1853 -- Interrogating customs and sources of unease -- Custom and its discontents, part I -- Buller, Stanley, Hope, and Howick -- Denouement: two Greys and the survival of `Occupancy', 1845-1853 -- Symonds contextualized -- Placing the Treaty of Waitangi -- native title and court decisions as a resource for colonial government disciplining subjects -- Whither the Treaty of Waitangi? The conditionality of United States jurisprudence applied to New Zealand -- Custom and its discontents, part II -- Martin, Merivale, and the third Earl Grey -- The Wesleyan Missionary Society, the incidents of native title, and living with abstract disagreement -- The Aborigines' Protection Society -- `Magisterial Jurisdiction' and `Territorial Jurisdiction' -- Modus vivendi and proprietary rights -- the politics of negotiability and living with indeterminacy -- New Zealand's lost whig foundations -- diversity and balance in a `Baroque' constitution -- Institutional pluralism, constitutional adjustment, and native title -- constitutions as process and negotiability -- Native title illuminating British political debates about colonial constitutional design -- Conclusions --
505 0 _a5. Extricating `Native Title from its Present Entanglement' -- Recognizing Diversity and the Problem of a Liberal Constitution -- A jurisprudence in the shadows -- balanced constitutions and native title -- Jurisdictional incommensurability, conceptual incommensurability, and non-justiciability -- the electoral franchise and native title -- Jurisdictional incommensurability continued -- a board of inquiry in 1856 -- `They are all entangled or matted together' -- Constitutional condominium or consociation -- reconceiving Crown-Maori relations in colonial New Zealand -- This `Tendency to Self-Organization' -- colonial administration looking for inroads, intersections, and uptake -- The philosophy and political economy of individualizing native title through Crown grants -- 1856-1860 -- How to transform native title -- indigenous communities as vectors of, and volunteers for, change -- The necessity for courts to investigate native title -- `Negotiations and diplomatism will have no force, and no public support' -- State-building and experimentation -- the Native Territorial Rights Bill and the `Exclusive use and occupancy of any lands' -- 'No well-defined law' to guide and 'Exclusive use and occupancy' -- Fashioning statutory windows of communicability between indigenous custom and English law -- `How to reconcile this work of civilization with the fair claims and rights of the natives is the problem which the Government has to solve' -- Conclusions -- 6. Exploring the Dynamics and Consequences of `Occasional Association' -- The metaphor and problem of `Occasional association' -- `Occasional negociation' and the metaphor of `Occasional Association' -- an extended essay in two parts -- pt. I The Native Council Bill of 1860 -- an exceptional experiment in legislative design and imperial constitutionalism -- Governing subjects as strangers and legislative design -- double government, British South Asia, the Cape Colony, and New Zealand -- pt. II The Conditionality of the introduced colonial constitution -- the revival and denouement of an imperial native council option -- `The incorporation of the two races in one body politic' -- letters patent and an imperial native council: native title, administering native districts, and the levers of imperial military assistance and funding -- An imperial native council option confounded -- the second cut -- Conclusions -- a study in failure --
505 0 _a7. `Tribunals Independent of a Prince', 1859-1862 -- Exploring the Dynamics and Consequences of `Occasional Association', Part II -- `Whatever may be the true theory of native tenure' -- of native title, mana, and seignorial rights -- Negotiations for the acquisition of the Pekapeka block in Waitara, 1859 and 1860 -- Warring memoranda -- setting the scene -- Indigenous orders, the conditionality of the introduced colonial constitution, and the three sticks of law, the divine being, and the mana of New Zealand in disunion -- Constitutional reflections -- living with indeterminacy and disagreement -- Communal or tribal rights, political autonomy, and rights of government as a parochial and trans-oceanic theme -- the political constitutionalism of native title, New Zealand, Algeria, and the law of nations -- `It seems agreed that native title is marvellously complex' -- Casting Waitara as a constitutional moment -- Martin's The Taranaki Question and a beginning to the warring of pamphlets -- `A country without law and a prince' -- the Treaty as an usher for rights-talk; individual and collective rights -- Who interprets? -- `Tribunals independent of the prince' and the meanings of the Treaty of Waitangi -- The Native Land Court, 1861-1862: a `Title Sifted Through' a statutory tribunal -- 8. Conclusions -- Constitutional Design and the Treaty of Waitangi: Balanced Constitutions, Native Title, and the Normativity of Political Constitutionalism.
520 8 _aThrough focusing on the political history of New Zealand during its imperial settlement, this book offers a fresh assessment of the history of indigenous property rights. It shows how native title became a constitutional frame within which political authority was formed and contested at the heart of empire and the colonial peripheries.
648 7 _aGeschichte 1830-1860.
_2swd
648 4 _aGeschichte 1830-1860.
648 7 _a1800-1899
_2fast
650 0 _aMaori (New Zealand people)
_xLand tenure.
650 0 _aMaori (New Zealand people)
_xLegal status, laws, etc.
650 0 _aLand settlement
_xLaw and legislation
_zNew Zealand.
650 0 _aLand settlement
_zNew Zealand
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 7 _aLand settlement.
_2fast
650 7 _aLand settlement
_xLaw and legislation.
_2fast
650 7 _aMaori (New Zealand people)
_xLand tenure.
_2fast
650 7 _aMaori (New Zealand people)
_xLegal status, laws, etc.
_2fast
650 7 _aGrundeigentum
_2gnd
650 7 _aImperialismus
_2gnd
650 7 _aIndigenes Volk
_2gnd
650 7 _aRechtsprechung
_2gnd
650 7 _aMana whenua.
_2reo
650 7 _aTure.
_2reo
650 7 _aMana whakairo hinengaro.
_2reo
650 7 _aK�orero nehe.
_2reo
651 7 _aNew Zealand.
_2fast
651 7 _aNeuseeland
_2gnd
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
830 0 _aOxford studies in modern legal history.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy12pdf02/2011939972.html
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_cBOOK