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Recognizing Aboriginal Title

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Description for Recognizing Aboriginal Title Paperback. Recognizing Aboriginal Title is a work of enormous importance by a legal and constitutional scholar of international renown, written with a passion worthy of its subject - a man who fought hard for his people and won. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: LNSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 730.

A judicial revolution occurred in 1992 when Australia's highest court discarded a doctrine that had stood for two hundred years, that the country was a terra nullius – a land of no one – when the white man arrived. The proceedings were known as the Mabo Case, named for Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who fought the notion that the Australian Aboriginal people did not have a system of land ownership before European colonization. The case had international repercussions, especially on the four countries in which English-settlers are the dominant population: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.

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Mabo died at the age of fifty-six just five months before the case was settled. Although he had been exiled from his land over a dispute when he was a teenager, he was buried there as a hero. Recognizing Aboriginal Title is a work of enormous importance by a legal and constitutional scholar of international renown, written with a passion worthy of its subject – a man who fought hard for his people and won.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
Number of Pages
450
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802094438
SKU
V9780802094438
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About Peter H. Russell
Peter H. Russell is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Toronto.

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