Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 276 p)
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780230104556
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
Content:
A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss colonial deployments of European law and politics via the concept of ideology
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; A Note on the Cover Image; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I: European Law and Global Justice; 1 Global Justice and Regional Metaphysics: On the Critical History of the Law of Nature and Nations; 2 Justice and Imperialism: On the Very Idea of a Universal Standard; Part II: Transpositions of Empire; 3 The Legalities of English Colonizing: Discourses of European Intrusion upon the Americas, c. 1490-1830; 4 The Uses of the Rule of Law in British Colonial Societies in the Nineteenth Century
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5 ""Your Sovereign and Our Father"": The Imperial Crown and the Idea of Legal-Ethnohistory6 The Justification of King Leopold II's Congo Enterprise by Sir Travers Twiss; Part III: Frontiers of Justice; 7 Samuel Marsden's Civility: The Transposition of Anglican Civil Authority to Australasia; 8 The Limits of Jurisdiction: Law, Governance, and Indigenous Peoples in Colonized Australia; 9 The Pig and the Peace: Transposing Order in Early Sydney; 10 William Pember Reeves (1857-1932): Lawyer-Politician, Historian, and ""Rough Architect"" of the New Zealand State
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Part IV: The Crown in Colonial New Zealand11 Sovereignty as Governance in the Early New Zealand Crown Colony Period; 12 Imperial Policy, Colonial Government, and Indigenous Testimony in South Australia and New Zealand in the 1840s; 13 Law and Politics in the Constitutional Delineation of Indigenous Property Rights in 1840s New Zealand; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230114388
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230104556
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought : Transpositions of Empire
Language:
English
