Land between two laws : early European land acquisitions in New Guinea.
Description
This book penetrates the facade of colonial law to consider European land acquisitions in the context of a complex historical process. Its context is land, but it is fundamentally a legal study of the problems arising out of the dichotomy between traditional New Guinea law and imposed Prussian law. Though these problems arose out of events that took place more than fifty years ago, they are of immediate relevance for New Guinea in the 1970s. They are mostly still unsolved and are only now...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Pacific Institute ANU Press (1965-Present) |
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Date published: | 1973 |
Type: | Book |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/114883 |
Access Rights: | Open Access |
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