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

Klappentext Argues that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international legal order. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 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 witnesses: cultural and legal hierarchies in the Cape Colony and New South Wales; 6. Constructing sovereignty: extra-territoriality in the Oriental Republic of Uruguay; 7. Culture and the rule(s) of law; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Benton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.02.2002
• EAN: 9780521009263
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00926-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Studies in Comparative World H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law