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Author:   Diane Kirkby
Publisher:   ANU Press
Imprint:   ANU Press
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9781922144027

ISBN 10:   1922144029
Publication Date:   01 September 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Law's History I. Law and Colonialism Redemption, Colonialism and International Criminal Law: The Nineteenth Century Slave-Trading Trials of Samo and Peters Linguistics, Religion and Law in Colonial New South Wales: Lancelot Threlkeld and Settler-Colonial Humanitarian Debates 'Destitute of the knowledge of God’: Māori Testimony Before the New Zealand Courts in the Early Crown Colony Period II. Law in Community Public Opinion, Private Remonstrance, and the Law: Protecting Animals in Australia, 1803–1914 Using the Law: Working-Class Communities and Carnal Knowledge Cases in Victoria, 1900–06 Reading Past Cases of Child Cruelty in the Present: The Use of the Parental Right to Discipline in New Zealand Court Trials, 1890–1902 Women, Children and Violence in Aboriginal Law: Some Perspectives From the Southeast Queensland Frontier III. Law as Theory and Practice How to Write Feminist Legal History: Some Notes on Genealogical Method, Family Law, and the Politics of the Present Spain’s ‘pact of silence’ and the Removal of Franco’s Statues ‘The sailor is a human being’: Labour Market Regulation and the Australian Navigation Act 1912 Parental ‘Consent’ to Child Removal in Stolen Generations Cases

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