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Law, language, and empire in the Roman tradition / Clifford Ando.
LIBRA KJA2918 .A86 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ando, Clifford, 1969-
- Series:
- Empire and after
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roman law--Provinces.
- Roman law.
- International law (Roman law).
- Legal polycentricity--Rome.
- Legal polycentricity.
- Roman law--Language.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 168 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Focusing on the late seventh to early eleventh centuries in the region between Iraq in the east and present-day Tunisia in the west, this study explores the multiplicity of judicial systems that coexisted under early Islam to reveal a complex array of social obligations that connected individuals across confessional boundaries. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Citizen and Alien before the Law 1
- Chapter 2 Law's Empire 19
- Chapter 3 Empire and the Laws of War 37
- Chapter 4 Sovereignty and Solipsism in Democratic Empires 64
- Chapter 5 Domesticating Domination 81.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812243543
- 0812243544
- OCLC:
- 724643420
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