Rights and redemption : history, law and indigenous people / Ann Curthoys, Ann Genovese, Alexander Reilly.

Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2008.

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Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- History.

Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.

1. --2. --3. --4. --5. --6. --7. --8. Historians in the courtroom: a history Mabo and history Native title: proof and historical evidence Historians, expertise and the native title process Judicial historiography and the question of genocide Mourning the stolen generation: the role of redemptive history From Kumurangk to Hindmarsh Island: law's anthropology Contested identities and histories: Shaw v Wolf.

This book investigates the uses of history and historians in cases heard by the Australian Federal Court involving indigenous litigants, during the era of the Howard Government.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780868408071

xvi, 278 p. ; 24 cm