Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 /

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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 much-needed framework for analysing the complex and fluid legal politics of empires. Contributors analyse how ideas about law moved across vast empir...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ross, Richard Jeffrey (Editor), Benton, Lauren A. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Legal polycentricity.
Colonies > Law and legislation.
Pluralisme juridique > Congres.
Legal polycentricity > Congresses.
Colonies > Law and legislation > Congresses.
Actes de congres.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Congress
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 much-needed framework for analysing the complex and fluid legal politics of empires. Contributors analyse 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9780814708316

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