Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire

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