Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada by Amanda Nettelbeck et al

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Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Tiny mark on tail right foredge. Interior and binding are still excellent.

Fragile Settlements compares how colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in south-west Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century.

At the start of this period, settler migration exploded across the British Empire. In a humanitarian response to the unprecedented demand for land, Britain's Colonial Office moved to protect Indigenous peoples by making them subjects under British law.

This book examines the tensions and contradictions that emerged as colonial actors and institutions - including government officials, police, courts, churches, and philanthropic organisations - interpreted and applied the principle of law in their interactions with Aboriginal peoples on the ground.