Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Global Justice and Regional Metaphysics: On the Critical History of the Law of Nature and Nations

Chapter 3 Justice and Imperialism: On the Very Idea of a Universal Standard

Chapter 4 The Legalities of English Colonizing: Discourses of European Intrusion upon the Americas, c. 1490–1830

Chapter 5 The Uses of the Rule of Law in British Colonial Societies in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 6 “ Your sovereign and Our Father ”: The Imperial Crown and the Idea of Legal-Ethnohistory

Chapter 7 The Justification of King Leopold II’s Congo Enterprise by Sir Travers Twiss

Chapter 8 Samuel Marsden’s Civility: The Transposition of Anglican Civil Authority to Australasia

Chapter 9 The Limits of Jurisdiction: Law, Governance, and Indigenous Peoples in Colonized Australia

Chapter 10 The Pig and the Peace: Transposing Order in Early Sydney

Chapter 11 William Pember Reeves (1857–1932): Lawyer-Politician, Historian, and “Rough Architect” of the New Zealand State

Chapter 12 Sovereignty as Governance in the Early New Zealand Crown Colony Period

Chapter 13 Imperial Policy, Colonial Government, and Indigenous Testimony in South Australia and New Zealand in the 1840s

Chapter 14 Law and Politics in the Constitutional Delineation of Indigenous Property Rights in 1840s New Zealand