North America, New Zealand and Australia were colonised by England under an international legal principle that is known today as the doctrine of discovery. This

Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s. Its predecessor was the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal tradition by which Euro

In 1823, Chief Justice John Marshall handed down a Supreme Court decision of monumental importance in defining the rights of indigenous peoples throughout the E

"An analysis of how religious bias shaped U.S. federal Indian law."--

This book presents new material and shines fresh light on the under-explored historical and legal evidence about the use of the doctrine of discovery in Austral