'Decidedly the most interesting savages on the globe': An approach to the intellectual history of maori property rights, 1837-53

• Autores: M. Hickford
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 27, Nº 1, 2006, págs. 122-167
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article contends that the intellectual history of developing British imperial policy towards indigenous peoples' property rights to land in the mid-nineteenth century is best approached through seeing policy as made in the context of two intellectual vocabularies that were conjoined: the stadial theory of history and the law of nations. New Zealand provides an example of these languages in contestable play between the 1830s and 1853 at a time when the expanding British Empire as a whole vied with issues such as 'native title' and the placement and control of settler populations.