Law and Colonial Cultures Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900

Name: Law and Colonial Cultures Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900
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ISBN: 9780521009263

ISBN-10: 052100926X

ISBN-13: 9780521009263

Edition: 2001

Authors: Lauren Benton, Michael Adas, Edmund Burke, Philip D. Curtin

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This text advances a different perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international order. The book uses case studies to trace a shift in plural legal orders.

Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/3/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Lauren Benton is Professor of History and Affiliated Professor of Law at New York University. Her books include A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900 and Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900.



Acknowledgements



Legal regimes and colonial cultures



Law in diaspora: the legal regime of the Atlantic world



Order out of trouble: jurisdictional tensions in Catholic and Islamic empires



A place for the state: legal pluralism as a colonial project in Bengal and West Africa



Subjects and witnesses: cultural and legal hierarchies in the Cape Colony and New South Wales



Constructing sovereignty: extra-territoriality in the Oriental Republic of Uruguay



Culture and the rule(s) of law


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