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Across Oceans of Law : The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire /
In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and two months later were deported to...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: currents and countercurrents of law and radicalism
- The free sea: a juridical space
- The ship as legal person
- Land, sea, and subjecthood
- Anticolonial vernaculars of indigeneity
- The fugitive sojourns of Gurdit Singh
- Epilogue: race, jurisdiction, and the free sea reconsidered.