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Common law & colonised peoples : studies in Trinidad & Western Australia / Jeannine M. Purdy.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purdy, Jeannine M., author.
- Series:
- Routledge revivals.
- Routledge revivals
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Common law--Trinidad and Tobago--Cross-cultural studies.
- Common law--Australia--Western Australia--Cross-cultural studies.
- Law--Great Britain--Colonies--Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages).
- Other Title:
- Common Law and Colonised Peoples : Studies in Trinidad and Western Australia
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 1997.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Published in 1997. The disproportionate criminalisation of Aboriginal Australians and Afro-Trinidadians is interpreted by the author as a continuation and concretion of the myth of the barbaric, uncivilised and ungoverned 'savage; in opposition to which Western legal systems and societies have created their own identities.
- Contents:
- Theory, methodology and all that; contemporary criminalization; law, violence and economics.
- Notes:
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Routledge, viewed January 29, 2023.).
- ISBN:
- 0-429-46347-2
- 0-429-87274-7
- 0-429-87273-9
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