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

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.

Author: Lauren Benton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/01/2001
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780521804141

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