Law and Colonial Cultures : Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900

Adas, Michael ; Burke III, Edmund ; Curtin, Philip D.

Englisch

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001

Online-Ressource (301 p.)

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Print version: Law and Colonial Cultures : Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900

978-0-521-80414-1

978-0-511-04391-8 : 90 (NL)

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-521-80414-1 (Druckausgabe)

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE Legal Regimes and Colonial Cultures; TWO Law in Diaspora; THREE Order out of Trouble; FOUR A Place for the State; FIVE Subjects and Witnesses; SIX Constructing Sovereignty; SEVEN Culture and the Rule(s) of Law; Bibliography; Index;

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Klassifikation der Library of Congress: KZ1242 .B46 2001eb

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 340.509 ; 341/.09;

Advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics, it uses case studies to trace a shift from the multicentric law of early empires to the state-centered law of the colonial world

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