Law and colonial cultures : legal regimes in world history, 1400-1900 / Lauren Benton.
Law and colonial cultures : legal regimes in world history, 1400-1900 / Lauren Benton.
Law and colonial cultures : legal regimes in world history, 1400-1900 / Lauren Benton.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Date
2002.
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N340.509/ 1
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English
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xiii, 285 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Legal Regimes and Colonial Cultures -- 2. Law in Diaspora: The Legal Regime of the Atlantic World -- 3. Order out of Trouble: Jurisdictional Tensions in Catholic and Islamic Empires -- 4. A Place for the State: Legal Pluralism As a Colonial Project in Bengal and West Africa -- 5. Subjects and Wit...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2002.
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"Law and Colonial Cultures advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that cultural practice and institutions - not just the global economy - shaped colonial rule and the international order. The book examines the shift from the multicentric law of early modern empires to the state-centered law of high colonialism. In the early modern wor...
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Law and colonial cultures : legal regimes in world history, 1400-1900 / Lauren Benton.
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Studies in comparative world history.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-282) and index.
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N340.509/ 1
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052100926X(pb)
9780521804141
0521804140
052100926X (pb.)
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341.09
340.509
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991016632259702626
