Law and Colonial Cultures : Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900
Law and Colonial Cultures : Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900
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Author(s): Benton, Lauren
ISBN No.: 9780521009263
Pages: 300
Year: 200112
Format: Perfect (Trade Paper)
Price: $ 43.68
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

This text advances a different 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 and indigenous cultural contests and institutional change, the book 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. In the early modern world, the special legal status of cultural and religious others itself became an element of continuity across culturally diverse empires. In the 19th century, the state's assertion of a singular legal authority responded to repetitive legal conflicts - not simply to the imposition of Western models of governance. Indigenous subjects across time and in all settings were active in making, changing, and interpreting the law - and, by extension, in shaping the international order.


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