Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Legal Regimes and Colonial Cultures
- 2 Law in Diaspora: The Legal Regime of the Atlantic World
- 3 Order out of Trouble: Jurisdictional Tensions in Catholic and Islamic Empires
- 4 A Place for the State: Legal Pluralism As a Colonial Project in Bengal and West Africa
- 5 Subjects and Witnesses: Cultural and Legal Hierarchies in the Cape Colony and New South Wales
- 6 Constructing Sovereignty: Extraterritoriality in the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
- 7 Culture and the Rule(s) of Law
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Legal Regimes and Colonial Cultures
- 2 Law in Diaspora: The Legal Regime of the Atlantic World
- 3 Order out of Trouble: Jurisdictional Tensions in Catholic and Islamic Empires
- 4 A Place for the State: Legal Pluralism As a Colonial Project in Bengal and West Africa
- 5 Subjects and Witnesses: Cultural and Legal Hierarchies in the Cape Colony and New South Wales
- 6 Constructing Sovereignty: Extraterritoriality in the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
- 7 Culture and the Rule(s) of Law
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Law and Colonial CulturesLegal Regimes in World History, 1400–1900, pp. xi - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001