Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900

305 Pages·2014·6.616 MB·English

by  Saliha Belmessous

Empire by Treaty

Empire by Treaty
Negotiating European Expansion,
1600–1900
Edited by Saliha Belmessous
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Empire by treaty : negotiating European expansion, 1600–1900 / Edited by Saliha Belmessous.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–19–939178–3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Colonies—Law and legislation.
2. Europe—Foreign relations—Treaties. 3. Treaty-making power—Europe—History.
4. Europe—Territorial expansion. 5. Europe—Colonies. 6. Indigenous peoples—Claims—
History. I. Belmessous, Saliha, editor.
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CONTENTS
List of Maps vii
Acknowledgments ix
1. The Paradox of an Empire by Treaty 1
Saliha Belmessous
2. “Love Alone Is Not Enough”: Treaties in Seventeenth-Century
Dutch Colonial Expansion 19
Arthur Weststeijn
3. To “Clear the King’s and Indians’ Title”: Seventeenth-Century Origins of
North American Land Cession Treaties 45
Daniel K. Richter
4. Struggling over Indians: Territorial Conflict and Alliance Making in the
Heartland of South America (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries) 78
Tamar Herzog
5. The Acquisition of Aboriginal Land in Canada: The Genealogy of
an Ambivalent System (1600–1867) 101
Alain Beaulieu
6. A British Empire by Treaty in Eighteenth-Century India 132
Robert Travers
7. Palavers and Treaty Making in the British Acquisition of the
Gold Coast Colony (West Africa) 161
Rebecca Shumway
8. The Tradition of Treaty Making in Australian History 186
Saliha Belmessous
9. “A Text for Every Agitator amongst the Natives”: Māori Property,
Settler Politics, and the Māori Franchise in the 1850s 214
Damen Ward
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10. The “Lessons of History”: The Ideal of Treaty in Settler
Colonial Societies 243
Paul Patton
Contributors 271
Index 273
LIST OF MAPS
The Dutch in Southeast Asia 31
English Territorial Claims in Native North America, c. 1682 51
Historical Indian Treaties in Canada 102
Land Reserved for the Indians by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 116
The Province of Quebec in 1774 120
Lower and Upper Canada, 1791 123
British Expansion in India to 1805 135
The British Gold Coast Colony and Adjacent Territories 165
Australian Colonies in the 1830s 193
New Zealand, c. 1854 217
All maps by Colpron, 2013
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am deeply grateful to all the contributors for their dedication to this book.
I wish to thank Oxford University Press, and Nancy Toff in particular, for taking
up this project so enthusiastically. I am grateful to the anonymous referees of Oxford
University Press for their comments and indebted to Andrew Fitzmaurice for gener-
ously sharing his extensive knowledge of international law.
Finally, I owe special thanks to the Australian Research Council for funding the
broader project of which this is a part.
Saliha Belmessous
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