Savagery and civilization: From terra nullius to the 'tide of history'

Ethnicities

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-26

  Buchan, Bruce ^a   Heath, Mary ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Colonization; Indigenous Australia; Property; Society; Sovereignty; State

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745741766     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796806061077     Document Type: Article

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