Law and colonial cultures : legal regimes in world history, 1400-1900
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/ Lauren Benton
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Cambridge
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: Cambridge University Press
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, 2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiii, 285 p.
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Studies in comparative world history
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Code E.Book: 2741
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Index
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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.