Colonial legacies in postcolonial contexts : a critical rhetorical examination of legal histories / Marouf Arif Hasian.

New York : Peter Lang, 2002.

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Justice, Administration of -- History.

Rule of law -- History.

Colonies -- Law and legislation -- History.

Imperialism.

I. Introduction : rhetoric, law, and postcolonial imaginations

II. Who really ended the British colonial slave trade? : Colonial and postcolonial readings of transatlantic antislavery movements

III. Colonial recharacterization and the discourse surrounding the Eyre controversy

IV. Leopold II, the "Congo Free State," and the legalization of the scramble for Africa

V. Imperial justice, South African colonialisms, and the Australian legend of "Breaker" Morant

VI. Anglo-American imaginations, the legend of "Lawrence of Arabia" and justice in the "Middle East"

VII. Eddie Koiki Mabo, the end of 'Terra Nullius', and the seach for Australian native title

VIII. Who speaks for postcolonial futures? : Genetic dreams and the legalities of the "other" human genome project

IX. Conclusion : the future of postcolonial legal regimes.

Includes index.

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