Law And Colonial Cultures
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Author |
: Lauren Benton |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 052100926X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521009263 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis Law and Colonial Cultures by : Lauren Benton
Argues that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international legal order.
Author |
: Lauren A. Benton |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1413782865 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law and Colonial Cultures by : Lauren A. Benton
Author |
: Lauren A. Benton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0511328885 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780511328886 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law and Colonial Cultures by : Lauren A. Benton
Advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics, it uses case studies to trace a shift from the multicentric law of early empires to the state-centered law of the colonial world.
Author |
: Ritu Birla |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2009-01-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822392477 |
ISBN-13 |
: 082239247X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stages of Capital by : Ritu Birla
In Stages of Capital, Ritu Birla brings research on nonwestern capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India’s market society. Between 1870 and 1930, the British regime in India implemented a barrage of commercial and contract laws directed at the “free” circulation of capital, including measures regulating companies, income tax, charitable gifting, and pension funds, and procedures distinguishing gambling from speculation and futures trading. Birla argues that this understudied legal infrastructure institutionalized a new object of sovereign management, the market, and along with it, a colonial concept of the public. In jurisprudence, case law, and statutes, colonial market governance enforced an abstract vision of modern society as a public of exchanging, contracting actors free from the anachronistic constraints of indigenous culture. Birla reveals how the categories of public and private infiltrated colonial commercial law, establishing distinct worlds for economic and cultural practice. This bifurcation was especially apparent in legal dilemmas concerning indigenous or “vernacular” capitalists, crucial engines of credit and production that operated through networks of extended kinship. Focusing on the story of the Marwaris, a powerful business group renowned as a key sector of India’s capitalist class, Birla demonstrates how colonial law governed vernacular capitalists as rarefied cultural actors, so rendering them illegitimate as economic agents. Birla’s innovative attention to the negotiations between vernacular and colonial systems of valuation illustrates how kinship-based commercial groups asserted their legitimacy by challenging and inhabiting the public/private mapping. Highlighting the cultural politics of market governance, Stages of Capital is an unprecedented history of colonial commercial law, its legal fictions, and the formation of the modern economic subject in India.
Author |
: Mary Sarah Bilder |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2008-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674020944 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674020948 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Transatlantic Constitution by : Mary Sarah Bilder
Departing from traditional approaches to colonial legal history, Mary Sarah Bilder argues that American law and legal culture developed within the framework of an evolving, unwritten transatlantic constitution that lawyers, legislators, and litigants on both sides of the Atlantic understood. The central tenet of this constitution—that colonial laws and customs could not be repugnant to the laws of England but could diverge for local circumstances—shaped the legal development of the colonial world. Focusing on practices rather than doctrines, Bilder describes how the pragmatic and flexible conversation about this constitution shaped colonial law: the development of the legal profession; the place of English law in the colonies; the existence of equity courts and legislative equitable relief; property rights for women and inheritance laws; commercial law and currency reform; and laws governing religious establishment. Using as a case study the corporate colony of Rhode Island, which had the largest number of appeals of any mainland colony to the English Privy Council, she reconstructs a largely unknown world of pre-Constitutional legal culture.
Author |
: Mary Sarah Bilder |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2008-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674020948 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674020944 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Transatlantic Constitution by : Mary Sarah Bilder
Departing from traditional approaches to colonial legal history, Mary Sarah Bilder argues that American law and legal culture developed within the framework of an evolving, unwritten transatlantic constitution that lawyers, legislators, and litigants on both sides of the Atlantic understood. The central tenet of this constitution—that colonial laws and customs could not be repugnant to the laws of England but could diverge for local circumstances—shaped the legal development of the colonial world. Focusing on practices rather than doctrines, Bilder describes how the pragmatic and flexible conversation about this constitution shaped colonial law: the development of the legal profession; the place of English law in the colonies; the existence of equity courts and legislative equitable relief; property rights for women and inheritance laws; commercial law and currency reform; and laws governing religious establishment. Using as a case study the corporate colony of Rhode Island, which had the largest number of appeals of any mainland colony to the English Privy Council, she reconstructs a largely unknown world of pre-Constitutional legal culture.
Author |
: Lauren Benton |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 357 |
Release |
: 2009-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107782716 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107782716 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Search for Sovereignty by : Lauren Benton
A Search for Sovereignty approaches world history by examining the relation of law and geography in European empires between 1400 and 1900. Lauren Benton argues that Europeans imagined imperial space as networks of corridors and enclaves, and that they constructed sovereignty in ways that merged ideas about geography and law. Conflicts over treason, piracy, convict transportation, martial law, and crime created irregular spaces of law, while also attaching legal meanings to familiar geographic categories such as rivers, oceans, islands, and mountains. The resulting legal and spatial anomalies influenced debates about imperial constitutions and international law both in the colonies and at home. This study changes our understanding of empire and its legacies and opens new perspectives on the global history of law.
Author |
: Mitra Sharafi |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2014-04-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107047976 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107047978 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia by : Mitra Sharafi
This book explores the legal culture of the Parsis, or Zoroastrians, an ethnoreligious community unusually invested in the colonial legal system of British India and Burma. Rather than trying to maintain collective autonomy and integrity by avoiding interaction with the state, the Parsis sank deep into the colonial legal system itself. From the late eighteenth century until India's independence in 1947, they became heavy users of colonial law, acting as lawyers, judges, litigants, lobbyists, and legislators. They de-Anglicized the law that governed them and enshrined in law their own distinctive models of the family and community by two routes: frequent intra-group litigation often managed by Parsi legal professionals in the areas of marriage, inheritance, religious trusts, and libel, and the creation of legislation that would become Parsi personal law. Other South Asian communities also turned to law, but none seems to have done so earlier or in more pronounced ways than the Parsis.
Author |
: Peter Charles Hoffer |
Publisher |
: Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2019-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421434599 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421434598 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law and People in Colonial America by : Peter Charles Hoffer
It makes for essential reading.
Author |
: Serge Dauchy |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 586 |
Release |
: 2016-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319455679 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319455672 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture by : Serge Dauchy
This volume surveys 150 law books of fundamental importance in the history of Western legal literature and culture. The entries are organized in three sections: the first dealing with the transitional period of fifteenth-century editions of medieval authorities, the second spanning the early modern period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, and the third focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors are scholars from all over the world. Each ‘old book’ is analyzed by a recognized specialist in the specific field of interest. Individual entries give a short biography of the author and discuss the significance of the works in the time and setting of their publication, and in their broader influence on the development of law worldwide. Introductory essays explore the development of Western legal traditions, especially the influence of the English common law, and of Roman and canon law on legal writers, and the borrowings and interaction between them. The book goes beyond the study of institutions and traditions of individual countries to chart a broader perspective on the transmission of legal concepts across legal, political, and geographical boundaries. Examining the branches of this genealogical tree of books makes clear their pervasive influence on modern legal systems, including attempts at rationalizing custom or creating new hybrid systems by transplanting Western legal concepts into other jurisdictions.