Law and colonial cultures : legal regimes in world history, 1400-1900 /

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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-ce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Benton, Lauren A., 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Colección:Studies in comparative world history.
Temas:
International law > History.
International relations and culture > History.
Droit international > Histoire.
Relations internationales et culture > Histoire.
LAW > International.
International law.
International relations and culture.
Kolonialismus
Kultur
Rechtssystem
Koloniaal bestuur.
Internationaal recht.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 as a colonial project in Bengal and West Africa
  • Subjects and witnesses: cultural and legal hierarchies i the Cape Colony and New South Wales
  • Constructing sovereignty: extraterritoriality in the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
  • Culture and the rule(s) of law.

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