Legal pluralism and empires, 1500-1850

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Other Authors : Benton Lauren A. (Éditeur scientifique), Ross Richard J. (Éditeur scientifique)
Format : Book
Language : anglais
Title statement : Legal pluralism and empires, 1500-1850 / edited by Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross
Published : New York (N.Y.) : New York university press , cop. 2013
Physical Description : 1 vol. (IX-314 p.)
Subjects :
  • Empires and legal pluralism : jurisdiction, sovereignty, and political imagination in the early modern world / Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross
  • "Bundles of hyphens" : corporations as legal communities in the early modern British empire / Philip J. Stern
  • Litigating empire : the role of French courts in establishing colonial sovereignties / Helen Dewar
  • Aspects of legal pluralism in the ottoman empire / Karen Barkey
  • Reconstructing early modern notions of legal pluralism / Richard J. Ross and Philip J. Stern
  • Between justice and economics : "Indians" and reformism in eighteenth-century Spanish imperial thought / Brian Owensby
  • Magistrates in empire : convicts, slaves, and the remaking of the plural legal order in the British Empire / Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford
  • "Seeking the water of baptism" : fugitive slaves and imperial jurisdiction in the early modern Caribbean / Linda Rupert
  • "A pretty gov[ernment]!" : the "confederation of united tribes" and Britain's quest for imperial order in the New Zealand islands during the 1830s / P. G. McHugh
  • Laws' histories : pluralisms, pluralities, diversity / Paul D. Halliday
  • Rules of law, politics of empire / Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper