Empire and Order on the Colonial Frontiers of Georgia and New South Wales
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11283583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Ford (0000-0002-6568-3063, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 95-113 |
| Publication date | 2006-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Itinerario (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-1153 • E-ISSN: 2041-2827 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0165115300013395 |
| OpenAlex | W2161347591 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
In 1767, settlers on the western frontier of Georgia in North America sent a dire petition to their governor begging for protection. They claimed that local Creek Indians had stolen their horses and planned imminently to destroy their livestock and to kill their families. Before the governor could respond, the settlers crossed the Indian boundary to loot and burn a Creek village. In doing so they galvanized the imperial legal order into action – not against Creek horse thieves but against settler vigilantes on Creek land. At the urging of London officials, the governor of Georgia had the settlers arrested and charged, first with a felony, and when that failed, with ‘abuse and misdemeanour at common law against government’. However, Georgia's jurors refused to hold them accountable on either charge
Ancient history · Archaeology · Begging · Charge (physics · Colonialism · Empire · Frontier · Geography · Government (linguistics · Governor · Order (exchange · Political science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Engineering · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
The American Indian in Western Legal Thought
The Middle Ground
The Middle Ground
From Borderlands to Borders
The Oxford History of the British Empire
The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650–1900
From Borderlands to Borders
Law and Colonial Cultures
Imperia in Imperio
Creek Country
Local Origins of National Indian Policy
Compromising Westphalia
The Beginnings of British West Florida
Georgia Land Surveying
John Stuart and the Struggle for Empire on the Southern Frontier
Militiamen, Rangers, and Redcoats
Puritan Justice and the Indian
British Policy towards the American Indians in the South, 1763–8
Between Law and Custom
Deerskins and Duffels
Colonialism and the Modern World
The Problem of Sovereignty in European History
Aboriginal Societies and the Common Law
The political construction of scale
Scales of justice
The Restructuring of Geographical Scale
Deerskins and Duffels
Zones of Law, Zones of Violence
Facing East from Indian Country
Petitions and the 'Invention' of Public Opinion in the English Revolution
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |