Between Law and Custom

This book explores the three-way struggle between the British colonists who settled North America Australia New Zealand and South Africa; the British government and its U.S. and Canadian federal government successors; and the indigenous peoples of the settled regions. In the colonies British law and popular norms clashed over a range of issues including ready access to land the property rights of aboriginal people the taking of property for public purposes and master-servant relationships. This book will greatly appeal to law professors historians and anyone interested in the rights of native peoples.