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1 online resource (ix, 314 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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, Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 offers both legal scholars and historians a much-needed 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, include the British, French, Spanish, Ottoman, and Russian empires, gives readers the most comparative examiniation of legal pluralism to date. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Colonies -- Law and legislation -- Congresses.
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Colonies -- Law and legislation. |
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Legal polycentricity -- Congresses.
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Legal polycentricity. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Benton, Lauren A., 1956- editor.
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Ross, Richard Jeffrey, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Legal pluralism and empires, 1500-1850. New York : New York University Press, 2013 9780814771167 (DLC) 2013001060 (OCoLC)819717787 |
| ISBN |
9780814708316 electronic book |
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0814708315 electronic book |
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9780814771167 |
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0814771165 |
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9780814708361 |
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0814708366 |
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