Recognising Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-settler Colonialism
- ISBN-10
- 0868408204
- ISBN-13
- 9780868408200
- Category
- Psychology / Psychotherapy / Group
- Pages
- 470
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- UNSW Press
- Author
- Peter H. Russell
Description
Considers the Mabo case, its background in colonial and Australian history and the events that led up to it, including the decade of litigation preceding the High Court's final decision. Also puts it in context of the international struggle by indigenous peoples in settler societies to overcome their colonised condition.
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