Law and colonial cultures : legal regimes in world history, 1400-1900
/ Lauren Benton
Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
, 2002.
xiii, 285 p.
Studies in comparative world history
Code E.Book: 2741
Index
Legal regimes and colonial cultures -- Law in diaspora: the legal regime of the Atlantic world -- Order out of trouble: jurisdictional tensions in Catholic and Islamic empires -- A place for the state: legal pluralism as as a colonial project in Bengal and West Africa -- Subjects and witnesses: cultural and legal hierarchies i the Cape Colony and New South Wales -- Constructing sovereignty: extraterritoriality in the Oriental Republic of Uruguay -- Culture and the rule(s) of law.