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    Finnane, Mark
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    Finnane, Mark J.
    Year published
    2013
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    Legal institutions were scarcely visible at the founding of New South Wales. It was nearly half a century before the scope of the legal authority claimed by the British settlers over the country's Indigenous inhabitants was determined. Law meant different things to the settlers and the Indigenous peoples. For the latter, as settlers were only slowly to discover, life and law intersected, overlapped, and were inseparable. Law was comprehensive and normative in ways that settlers could not imagine and failed to appreciate. For settlers, law was mutable, its claims over lives and ways of living expanding and contracting as ...
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    Legal institutions were scarcely visible at the founding of New South Wales. It was nearly half a century before the scope of the legal authority claimed by the British settlers over the country's Indigenous inhabitants was determined. Law meant different things to the settlers and the Indigenous peoples. For the latter, as settlers were only slowly to discover, life and law intersected, overlapped, and were inseparable. Law was comprehensive and normative in ways that settlers could not imagine and failed to appreciate. For settlers, law was mutable, its claims over lives and ways of living expanding and contracting as modernity was in process. It was also a weapon that individuals could wield against each other, a shield that might repel the harms directed by others, even by those in authority, against those who had few of the world's resources. Law also meant different things to those in power and those without. In the first century of Australian settlement law was the twin of government;, sometimes its critic, at others its instrument. The nineteenth century proved a creative era for law in the scope of regulation, in the reform and refinement of its penalties and in the design of its institutions. But that was only possible after the taking of the country from its first peoples.
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    Book Title
    The Cambridge History of Australia: Indigenous and Colonial Australia
    Volume
    1
    Publisher URI
    https://www.cambridge.org/au/academic/subjects/history/australian-history/cambridge-history-australia-volume-1-1?format=PB
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    © 2013 Cambridge University Press. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the publisher's website for further information.
    Subject
    Australian history
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/53690
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