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

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

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Comparative World History

General LawGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521804140
ISBN13: 9780521804141
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 3 2001
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This book advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture--and not just the global economy--serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics and the interrelation of local cultural contests and institutional change, it uses case studies to trace a shift in plural legal orders--from the multicentric law of early empires to the state-centered law of the colonial and postcolonial world. Benton shows how Indigenous subjects across time were active in making, changing, and interpreting the law--and, by extension, in shaping the international order.

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