Law, language, and empire in the Roman tradition /
Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition demonstrates how Roman civil law functioned as an instrument of empire by tracking its application to the challenges of governing diverse and distant people.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2011.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Empire and after.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Citizen and Alien before the Law
- Chapter 2. Law's Empire
- Chapter 3. Empire and the Laws of War
- Chapter 4. Sovereignty and Solipsism in Democratic Empires
- Chapter 5. Domesticating Domination
- Appendix. Work-arounds in Roman Law: The Fiction and Its Kin
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.