Law & Empire in the Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law & Empire in the Pacific write by Sally Engle Merry. This book was released on 2004. Law & Empire in the Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book grew out of an advanced seminar held ... March [18-22], 2001 at the School for American Research (SAR) in Santa Fe, New Mexico"--P. 9.
International Status in the Shadow of Empire
International Status in the Shadow of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Status in the Shadow of Empire write by Cait Storr. This book was released on 2020-09-17. International Status in the Shadow of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a new account of Nauru's imperial history and examines its significance in the history of international law.
Across Oceans of Law
Across Oceans of Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Across Oceans of Law write by Renisa Mawani. This book was released on 2018-08-09. Across Oceans of Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and two months later were deported to Calcutta. In Across Oceans of Law Renisa Mawani retells this well-known story of the Komagata Maru. Drawing on "oceans as method"—a mode of thinking and writing that repositions land and sea—Mawani examines the historical and conceptual stakes of situating histories of Indian migration within maritime worlds. Through close readings of the ship, the manifest, the trial, and the anticolonial writings of Singh and others, Mawani argues that the Komagata Maru's landing raised urgent questions regarding the jurisdictional tensions between the common law and admiralty law, and, ultimately, the legal status of the sea. By following the movements of a single ship and bringing oceans into sharper view, Mawani traces British imperial power through racial, temporal, and legal contests and offers a novel method of writing colonial legal history.
The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa
The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa write by Line-Noue Memea Kruse. This book was released on 2019-06-04. The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a researched study of land issues in American Sāmoa that analyzes the impact of U.S. colonialism and empire building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Carefully tracing changes in land laws up to the present, this volume also draws on a careful examination of legal traditions, administrative decisions, court cases and rising tensions between indigenous customary land tenure practices in American Sāmoa and Western notions of individual private ownership. It also highlights how unusual the status of American Sāmoa is in its relationship with the U.S., namely as the only “unincorporated” and “unorganized” overseas territory, and aims to expand the U.S. empire-building scholarship to include and recognize American Sāmoa into the vernacular of Americanization projects.
Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands
Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands write by W. David McIntyre. This book was released on 2016-11-24. Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Little has been written about when, how and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independance to the Pacific Islands. Using recently opened archives, Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands gives the first detailed account of this event. As Britain began to dissolve the Empire in Asia in the aftermath of the Second World War, it announced that there were some countries that were so small, remote, and lacking in resources that they could never become independent states. However, between 1970 and 1980 there was a rapid about-turn. Accelerated decolonization suddenly became the order of the day. Here was the death warrant of the Empire, and hastily-arranged independence ceremonies were performed for six new states - Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Vanuatu. The rise of anti-imperialist pressures in the United Nations had a major role in this change in policy, as did the pioneering examples marked by the release of Western Samoa by New Zealand in 1962 and Nauru by Australia in 1968. The tenacity of Pacific Islanders in maintaining their cultures was in contrast to more strident Afro-Asia nationalisms. The closing of the Colonial Office, by merger with the Commonwealth Relations Office in 1966, followed by the joining of the Commonwealth and Foreign Offices in 1968, became a major turning point in Britain's relations with the Islands. In place of long-nurtured traditions of trusteeship for indigenous populations that had evolved in the Colonial Office, the new Foreign & Commonwealth Office concentrated on fostering British interests, which came to mean reducing distant commitments and focussing on the Atlantic world and Europe.
