An edition of Empire and the Making of Native Title (2020)
Empire and the Making of Native Title
Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People
By Bain Attwood
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Publish Date
2022
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
eng
Pages
520
Description:
"In 1981 a novel question was addressed by an Australian historian, more or less for the first time. Why had the British Crown denied - or failed to recognise - the Aboriginal people's sovereignty and rights in land? Alan Frost argued that this occurred because the British government acted in accordance with the international legal conventions of the mid-eighteenth century, or more especially a particular legal decorum called terra nullius, a Latin word meaning a land without a sovereign or a land belonging to no one."--