The first comprehensive account of Australian human rights from a political science perspective, it addresses the key debates in Australian political debates about human rights.
"In the late nineteenth century, the Indian Wars took a turn to the domestic, as assimilation policies moved the site of violence from the battlefield into the home. The cornerstone policies of the assimilation campaigns - land allotment, compulsory education for Indian children…
An examination of Johnson's personal and political journey on civil rights, synthesizing available research into a concise study to focus on his record on racial politics.
Moving into the 21st century, Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities remain culturally vibrant and politically innovative as they continue to struggle for survival on many fronts. Editor Troy R. Johnson has assembled a volume of top scholarship from whic…
Enacting European citizenship
"Our goal in this book has been to develop a distinctive perspective on the emerging European citizenship and its impact on European integration. The rapidly changing politics of citizenship in the face of migration, diversity, heightened concerns about security, and financial a…
Nancy van Deusen examines over one hundred lawsuits that indio slaves brought to the Spanish court in the mid-sixteenth century to gain their freedom. The category indio was largely constructed during these lawsuits, and van Deusen emphasizes the need to situate colonial indigen…
In the sixteenth century hundreds of thousands of indios--indigineous peoples from the territories of the Spanish empire--were enslaved and relocated throughtout the Iberian world. Although various laws and decrees outlawed indio enslavement, several loopholes allowed the practi…
"The modern regulations and pervading attitudes that control native rights in the Americas may appear unrelated to the European colonial rule, but traces of the colonizers' cultural, religious, and economic agendas remain. Patricia Seed likens this situation to a pentimento - a …
