| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in comparative world history
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Studies in comparative world history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index. |
| Contents |
Legal regimes and colonial cultures -- Law in diaspora: the legal regime of the Atlantic world -- Order out of trouble: jurisdictional tensions in Catholic and Islamic empires -- A place for the state: legal pluralism as as a colonial project in Bengal and West Africa -- Subjects and witnesses: cultural and legal hierarchies i the Cape Colony and New South Wales -- Constructing sovereignty: extraterritoriality in the Oriental Republic of Uruguay -- Culture and the rule(s) of law. |
| Summary |
"Law and Colonial Cultures advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that cultural practice and institutions - not just the global economy - shaped colonial rule and the international order. The book examines the shift from the multicentric law of early modern empires to the state-centered law of high colonialism. In the early modern world, the special legal status of cultural and religious minorities provided institutional continuity across empires. Colonial and post-colonial states developed in the nineteenth century in part as a response to conflicts over the legal status of indigenous subjects and cultural others. The book analyzes these processes by juxtaposing discussion of broad institutional change with microstudies of selected legal cases."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
International law -- History.
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International law. |
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History. |
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International relations and culture -- History.
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International relations and culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Direito Internacional -- história.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Benton, Lauren A. Law and colonial cultures. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521804140 052100926X (DLC) 2001035091 (OCoLC)46685457 |
| ISBN |
0511041640 (electronic book) |
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9780511041648 (electronic book) |
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0521804140 |
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9780521804141 |
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052100926X (paperback) |
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9780521009263 (paperback) |
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051111964X (electronic book) |
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9780511119644 (electronic book) |
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0511043910 (electronic book) |
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9780511043918 (electronic book) |
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9780511512117 (electronic book) |
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0511512112 (electronic book) |
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1280159499 |
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9781280159497 |
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