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The genealogy of Terra Nullius

Titolo

The genealogy of Terra Nullius

Autore

Andrew Fitzmaurice

Data

Aprile 1, 2007

Tipo

Journal Article

Author

Andrew Fitzmaurice

Tipo documento

Journal Article

DOI

10.1080/10314610708601228

ISSN

1031-461X

Abstract Note

This article examines the genealogy of the term terra nullius, which remains elusive even as it is now clear that the term is absent from the eighteenth‐ and early nineteenth‐century historical record.1 I show, however, that terra nullius was generated by the history of European expansion and, specifically, by the natural law tradition that since the sixteenth century was employed to debate the justice of colonisation. I conclude that the contemporary use of the idea of terra nullius is consistent with a tradition in which natural law was used to oppose colonisation.

Access Date

2015-12-02 21:25:34

Data

Aprile 1, 2007

Issue

129

Library Catalog

Taylor and Francis+NEJM

Pagine

1-15

Publication Title

Australian Historical Studies

Titolo

The genealogy of Terra Nullius

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10314610708601228

Volume

38

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Citazione

Andrew Fitzmaurice, “The genealogy of Terra Nullius,” Colonizzazioni Interne e Migrazioni, accesso il 30 aprile 2025, http://storia.dh.unica.it/risorse_omc/items/show/992.

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