Across the past fifty or more years, indigenous peoples in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand have increasingly made political and legal claims about sovereignty and land. As this has occurred, numerous scholars in a broad range of disciplines – especially law and history – have tried to explain how these two matters were dealt with by the British empire in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nin ... (read more)
Bain Attwood
Bain Attwood is Professor of History at Monash University. He is the author of several books about the history of indigenous and settler peoples in Australia and New Zealand. His prize-winning book Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People (Cambridge University Press) was published in 2020, and his latest book, Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History, will be published by Auckland University Press in 2023.