Empire and the Making of Native Title

Bain Attwood is Professor of History at Monash University and has held fellowships at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. His book Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History (2009) won the Ernest Scott Prize for the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand. He is the author of Rights for Aborigines (2003) and the co-editor of Protection and Empire: A Global History (2018).

• Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Principal Players; Maps; Introduction; 1. Claiming Possession in New Holland and New Zealand, 1770s–1820s; 2. Batman's Treaty and the Rise and Fall of Native Title, 1835–1836; 3. The South Australian Colonisation Commission, the Colonial Office, and Aboriginal Rights in Land, 1834–1837; 4. Protection Claims and Sovereignty in the Islands of New Zealand, 1800–1839; 5. Making Agreements and a Struggle for Authority, 1839–1840; 6. The Land Claims Commission and the Return of the Treaty, 1840–1843; 7. A Colony in Crisis and a Select Committee, 1843–1844; 8. The Retreat of the Government and the Rise of the Treaty, 1844–1845; 9. The Making of Native Title, 1845–1850; Conclusion; Appendix (The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi); Bibliography; Index

'Empire and the Making of Native Title is a masterful account of the early colonisation of Australia and New Zealand that provides a clear, engaging, and persuasive explanation of why Britain treated the two places so differently.' Stuart Banner, author of Possessing the Pacific