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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Empires and legal pluralism : jurisdiction, sovereignty, and political imagination in the early modern world / Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross
- "Bundles of hyphens" : corporations as legal communities in the early modern British empire / Philip J. Stern
- Litigating empire : the role of French courts in establishing colonial sovereignties / Helen Dewar
- Aspects of legal pluralism in the Ottoman empire / Karen Barkey
- Reconstructing early modern notions of legal pluralism / Richard J. Ross and Philip J. Stern
- Between justice and economics : "Indians" and reformism in eighteenth-century Spanish imperial thought / Brian Owensby
- Magistrates in empire : convicts, slaves, and the remaking of the plural legal order in the British empire / Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford
- "Seeking the water of baptism" : fugitive slaves and imperial jurisdiction in the early modern Caribbean / Linda Rupert
- "A pretty gov[ernment]!" : the "confederation of united tribes" and Britain's quest for imperial order in the New Zealand islands during the 1830s / P.G. McHugh
- Laws' histories : pluralisms, pluralities, diversity / Paul D. Halliday
- Rules of law, politics of empire / Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper.