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Legal pluralism and empires, 1500-1850 /
Historians used to imagine empire as an imperial power extending total domination over its colonies. Now, however, they understand empire as a site in which colonies and their constitutions were regulated by legal pluralism: layered and multicentric systems of law, which incorporated or preserved th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2013
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Historians used to imagine empire as an imperial power extending total domination over its colonies. Now, however, they understand empire as a site in which colonies and their constitutions were regulated by legal pluralism: layered and multicentric systems of law, which incorporated or preserved the law of conquered subjects. By placing the study of law in diverse early modern empires under the rubric of legal pluralism, this book offers both legal scholars and historians a framework for analyzing the complex and fluid legal politics of empires. Contributors analyze how ideas about law moved across vast empires, how imperial agents and imperial subjects used law, and how relationships between local legal practices and global ones played themselves out in the early modern world. The book's tremendous geographical breadth, including the British, French, Spanish, Ottoman, and Russian empires, gives readers the most comparative examiniation of legal pluralism to date. |
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| Notas: | "This volume developed out of a 2010 conference on New Perspectives on Legal Pluralism organized by Lauren Benton and Richard Ross through the Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History ... under the auspices of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago"--Acknowledgments. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 314 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814708316 0814708315 |