Law and colonial cultures : legal regimes in world history, 1400-1900 / Lauren Benton.
"Law and Colonial Cultures advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that cultural practice and institutions - not just the global economy - shaped colonial rule and the international order. The book examines the shift from the multicentric law of early modern empires to the state-ce...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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Series: | Studies in comparative world history.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |