Damen Ward
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- December 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199391783
- eISBN:
- 9780190213213
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199391783.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History, Social History
Treaty making was a potentially powerful technique for structuring colonial relationships and authority. However, the constitutional revolutions of the 1840s and 1850s in British settlement colonies ...
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Treaty making was a potentially powerful technique for structuring colonial relationships and authority. However, the constitutional revolutions of the 1840s and 1850s in British settlement colonies significantly altered the way governors, colonists, and indigenous peoples might construct and contest notions of political subjecthood. In New Zealand reference to the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) formed an important strand of certain Māori and Pakēhā political positions during this period, but disputes over Māori attempts to enroll to vote in early colonial elections illustrate the way a variety of discursive and political factors limited the resonance of treaty arguments. In particular, this chapter highlights the importance of the “householder” qualification for Māori enrollment and the debate about the assessment of housing material and living arrangements as indicators of “civilization” and civic capacity. These discursive strands were more apparent at the magistrates’ court level than in parliamentary or imperial administrative contexts.Less
Treaty making was a potentially powerful technique for structuring colonial relationships and authority. However, the constitutional revolutions of the 1840s and 1850s in British settlement colonies significantly altered the way governors, colonists, and indigenous peoples might construct and contest notions of political subjecthood. In New Zealand reference to the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) formed an important strand of certain Māori and Pakēhā political positions during this period, but disputes over Māori attempts to enroll to vote in early colonial elections illustrate the way a variety of discursive and political factors limited the resonance of treaty arguments. In particular, this chapter highlights the importance of the “householder” qualification for Māori enrollment and the debate about the assessment of housing material and living arrangements as indicators of “civilization” and civic capacity. These discursive strands were more apparent at the magistrates’ court level than in parliamentary or imperial administrative contexts.
Michael Hope
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198768593
- eISBN:
- 9780191821981
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198768593.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History, Political History
This chapter summarizes the key themes of the book and considers the implications of its conclusions. The main narrative of the work, that the internal dynamics of the Īlkhān court were characterized ...
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This chapter summarizes the key themes of the book and considers the implications of its conclusions. The main narrative of the work, that the internal dynamics of the Īlkhān court were characterized by a struggle between the collegial and patrimonial parties, is recapitulated here. It is also suggested that many of the ideas and institutions to have emerged as a result of the competition between these two groups were inherited by later Persian dynasties, thereby establishing the profound influence of the Mongol–Īlkhān period on Iranian history. Indeed, this chapter argues that the sudden Islamization of the Īlkhān court towards the end of the thirteenth century did not see the disappearance of the traditional Mongol polity. Rather, old traditions and practices were routinized through the use of Islamic terminology and symbolism to ensure their continuation in later Iranian empires.Less
This chapter summarizes the key themes of the book and considers the implications of its conclusions. The main narrative of the work, that the internal dynamics of the Īlkhān court were characterized by a struggle between the collegial and patrimonial parties, is recapitulated here. It is also suggested that many of the ideas and institutions to have emerged as a result of the competition between these two groups were inherited by later Persian dynasties, thereby establishing the profound influence of the Mongol–Īlkhān period on Iranian history. Indeed, this chapter argues that the sudden Islamization of the Īlkhān court towards the end of the thirteenth century did not see the disappearance of the traditional Mongol polity. Rather, old traditions and practices were routinized through the use of Islamic terminology and symbolism to ensure their continuation in later Iranian empires.
