Law And Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes In World History, 1400-1900 (studies In Comparative World History)
by Lauren Benton /
2001 / English / PDF
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This book advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that
institutions and culture--and not just the global economy--serve as
important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial
legal politics and the interrelation of local cultural contests and
institutional change, it uses case studies to trace a shift in
plural legal orders--from the multicentric law of early empires to
the state-centered law of the colonial and postcolonial world.
Benton shows how Indigenous subjects across time were active in
making, changing, and interpreting the law--and, by extension, in
shaping the international order.
This book advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that
institutions and culture--and not just the global economy--serve as
important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial
legal politics and the interrelation of local cultural contests and
institutional change, it uses case studies to trace a shift in
plural legal orders--from the multicentric law of early empires to
the state-centered law of the colonial and postcolonial world.
Benton shows how Indigenous subjects across time were active in
making, changing, and interpreting the law--and, by extension, in
shaping the international order.