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Title Legal pluralism and empires, 1500-1850 / edited by Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross.
Publisher New York ; London : New York University Press, [2013]


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Descript ix, 314 pages ; 24 cm
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Note "This volume developed out of a 2010 conference on New Perspectives on Legal Pluralism organized by Lauren Benton and Richard Ross through the Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History ... under the auspices of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago" -- Acknowledgments.
Contents Empires and legal pluralism : jurisdiction, sovereignty, and political imagination in the early modern world / Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross -- "Bundles of hyphens" : corporations as legal communities in the early modern British empire / Philip J. Stern -- Litigating empire : the role of French courts in establishing colonial sovereignties / Helen Dewar -- Aspects of legal pluralism in the ottoman empire / Karen Barkey -- Reconstructing early modern notions of legal pluralism / Richard J. Ross and Philip J. Stern -- Between justice and economics : "Indians" and reformism in eighteenth-century Spanish imperial thought / Brian Owensby -- Magistrates in empire : convicts, slaves, and the remaking of the plural legal order in the British Empire / Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford -- "Seeking the water of baptism" : fugitive slaves and imperial jurisdiction in the early modern Caribbean / Linda Rupert -- "A pretty gov[ernment]!" : the "confederation of united tribes" and Britain's quest for imperial order in the New Zealand islands during the 1830s / P. G. McHugh -- Laws' histories : pluralisms, pluralities, diversity / Paul D. Halliday -- Rules of law, politics of empire / Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper.
ISBN 9780814708361 (pbk.)
0814708366 (pbk.)
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Subject Colonies -- Law and legislation -- Congresses.
Legal polycentricity -- Congresses.
Alt author Benton, Lauren A., 1956-
Ross, Richard Jeffrey.
Descript ix, 314 pages ; 24 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Note "This volume developed out of a 2010 conference on New Perspectives on Legal Pluralism organized by Lauren Benton and Richard Ross through the Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History ... under the auspices of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago" -- Acknowledgments.
Contents Empires and legal pluralism : jurisdiction, sovereignty, and political imagination in the early modern world / Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross -- "Bundles of hyphens" : corporations as legal communities in the early modern British empire / Philip J. Stern -- Litigating empire : the role of French courts in establishing colonial sovereignties / Helen Dewar -- Aspects of legal pluralism in the ottoman empire / Karen Barkey -- Reconstructing early modern notions of legal pluralism / Richard J. Ross and Philip J. Stern -- Between justice and economics : "Indians" and reformism in eighteenth-century Spanish imperial thought / Brian Owensby -- Magistrates in empire : convicts, slaves, and the remaking of the plural legal order in the British Empire / Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford -- "Seeking the water of baptism" : fugitive slaves and imperial jurisdiction in the early modern Caribbean / Linda Rupert -- "A pretty gov[ernment]!" : the "confederation of united tribes" and Britain's quest for imperial order in the New Zealand islands during the 1830s / P. G. McHugh -- Laws' histories : pluralisms, pluralities, diversity / Paul D. Halliday -- Rules of law, politics of empire / Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper.
ISBN 9780814708361 (pbk.)
0814708366 (pbk.)
Subject Colonies -- Law and legislation -- Congresses.
Legal polycentricity -- Congresses.
Alt author Benton, Lauren A., 1956-
Ross, Richard Jeffrey.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  K 3375 A6 L4  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Colonies -- Law and legislation -- Congresses.
Legal polycentricity -- Congresses.
Descript ix, 314 pages ; 24 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Note "This volume developed out of a 2010 conference on New Perspectives on Legal Pluralism organized by Lauren Benton and Richard Ross through the Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History ... under the auspices of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago" -- Acknowledgments.
Contents Empires and legal pluralism : jurisdiction, sovereignty, and political imagination in the early modern world / Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross -- "Bundles of hyphens" : corporations as legal communities in the early modern British empire / Philip J. Stern -- Litigating empire : the role of French courts in establishing colonial sovereignties / Helen Dewar -- Aspects of legal pluralism in the ottoman empire / Karen Barkey -- Reconstructing early modern notions of legal pluralism / Richard J. Ross and Philip J. Stern -- Between justice and economics : "Indians" and reformism in eighteenth-century Spanish imperial thought / Brian Owensby -- Magistrates in empire : convicts, slaves, and the remaking of the plural legal order in the British Empire / Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford -- "Seeking the water of baptism" : fugitive slaves and imperial jurisdiction in the early modern Caribbean / Linda Rupert -- "A pretty gov[ernment]!" : the "confederation of united tribes" and Britain's quest for imperial order in the New Zealand islands during the 1830s / P. G. McHugh -- Laws' histories : pluralisms, pluralities, diversity / Paul D. Halliday -- Rules of law, politics of empire / Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper.
Alt author Benton, Lauren A., 1956-
Ross, Richard Jeffrey.
ISBN 9780814708361 (pbk.)
0814708366 (pbk.)

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