Miranda Johnson is a lecturer in history at the University of Sydney.

One of the most important contributions of Miranda Johnson's The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State is to invigorate the value of 'comparative history.' ... Johnson's organized study and careful comparisons of similar historical phenomena in specific temporal and geographical spaces identifies significant historical contingencies, similarities, and differences. We discover what is distinctive about these particular series of related historical developments. The book is no less a documentation of the extraordinary achievements of those who struggled against intractable governments, courts, and crude contours of racism and misrecognition to push for redress and recognition of an ongoing dispossession. The book is a major achievement as a detailed study and also a source of reflection on earlier struggles.

• Acknowledgments A Note on Terms Introduction: A Fragile Truce Chapter 1: Citizens Plus: New Indigenous Activism in Australia and Canada Chapter 2: Australia's First, First People Chapter 3: Frontier Justice in Canada's North Chapter 4: Commissions of Inquiry and the Idea of a New Social Contract Chapter 5: Making a "Partnership Between Races:" Maori Activism and the Treaty of Waitangi Chapter 6: The Pacific Way Epilogue: Truce Undone Notes Bibliography Index

Miranda Johnson is a lecturer in history at the University of Sydney.

One of the most important contributions of Miranda Johnson's The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State is to invigorate the value of 'comparative history.' ... Johnson's organized study and careful comparisons of similar historical phenomena in specific temporal and geographical spaces identifies significant historical contingencies, similarities, and differences. We discover what is distinctive about these particular series of related historical developments. The book is no less a documentation of the extraordinary achievements of those who struggled against intractable governments, courts, and crude contours of racism and misrecognition to push for redress and recognition of an ongoing dispossession. The book is a major achievement as a detailed study and also a source of reflection on earlier struggles.

• Acknowledgments A Note on Terms Introduction: A Fragile Truce Chapter 1: Citizens Plus: New Indigenous Activism in Australia and Canada Chapter 2: Australia's First, First People Chapter 3: Frontier Justice in Canada's North Chapter 4: Commissions of Inquiry and the Idea of a New Social Contract Chapter 5: Making a "Partnership Between Races:" Maori Activism and the Treaty of Waitangi Chapter 6: The Pacific Way Epilogue: Truce Undone Notes Bibliography Index

Miranda Johnson is a lecturer in history at the University of Sydney.

One of the most important contributions of Miranda Johnson's The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State is to invigorate the value of 'comparative history.' ... Johnson's organized study and careful comparisons of similar historical phenomena in specific temporal and geographical spaces identifies significant historical contingencies, similarities, and differences. We discover what is distinctive about these particular series of related historical developments. The book is no less a documentation of the extraordinary achievements of those who struggled against intractable governments, courts, and crude contours of racism and misrecognition to push for redress and recognition of an ongoing dispossession. The book is a major achievement as a detailed study and also a source of reflection on earlier struggles.

• Acknowledgments A Note on Terms Introduction: A Fragile Truce Chapter 1: Citizens Plus: New Indigenous Activism in Australia and Canada Chapter 2: Australia's First, First People Chapter 3: Frontier Justice in Canada's North Chapter 4: Commissions of Inquiry and the Idea of a New Social Contract Chapter 5: Making a "Partnership Between Races:" Maori Activism and the Treaty of Waitangi Chapter 6: The Pacific Way Epilogue: Truce Undone Notes Bibliography Index