Studies in comparative world history Law and colonial cultures : legal regimes in world history, 1400-1900

Type

Book

Authors

Benton, Lauren

ISBN 10

052100926X

ISBN 13

9780521009263

LCCN

KZ1242.B46

DDC

341

Tags

World, Foreign & International Law, Legal History, History, Comparative Study

Series Name

Studies in comparative world history

Abstract

"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 micro-studies of selected legal cases."--Jacket.

Description

Contents
1 Legal Regime and Colonial Cultures
2 Law in Diaspora: The Legal Regime of the Atlantic World
3 Order Out of Trouble: Jurisdictional Tensions in Catholic and Islamic Empires
4 A Place for the State: Legal Pluralism As a Colonial Project in Bengal and West Africa
5 Subjects and Witnesses: Cultural and Legal Hierarchies in the Cape Colony and New South Wales
6 Constructing Sovereignty: Extraterritoriality in the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
7 Culture and Rules(s) of Law

Biblio Notes

Includes bibliographical references (267) and index.
Donated by Graham Price.

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