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Legal pluralism and empires, 1500-1850 / edited by Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonies--Law and legislation--Congresses.
- Colonies.
- Legal polycentricity--Congresses.
- Legal polycentricity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This wide-ranging volume advances our understanding of law and empire in the early modern world. Distinguished contributors expose new dimensions of legal pluralism in the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Ottoman empires. In-depth analyses probe such topics as the shifting legal privileges of corporations, the intertwining of religious and legal thought, and the effects of clashing legal authorities on sovereignty and subjecthood. Case studies show how a variety of individuals engage with the law and shape the contours of imperial rule.The volume reaches from Peru to New Zealand to Europe to capture the varieties and continuities of legal pluralism and to probe the analytic power of the concept of legal pluralism in the comparative study of empires. For legal scholars, social scientists, and historians, Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 maps new approaches to the study of empires and the global history of law.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "This volume developed out of a 2010 conference on New Perspectives on Legal Pluralism organized by Lauren Benton and Richard Ross through the Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History ... under the auspices of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago"-- Acknowledgments.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-0831-5
- OCLC:
- 854520238
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