The Colonies of law : colonialism, Zionism and law in early mandate Palestine / Ronen Shamir.

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Cambridge : Cambridge Univ Pr, 2000.

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21881

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Cambridge studies in law and society.

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Colonies -- Law and legislation -- Palestine -- History.

Justice, Administration of -- Palestine -- History.

Neighbourhood justice centres -- History -- Palestine.

Palestine -- History.

Contents:

Mandate Palestine 1914-1936: some facts and figures

Introduction

1. Mandate Palestine: the enigma of the missing colonial state

2. Whose tradition? Imageries of the past in Hebrew law

Interregnum

3. State law and communal justice

4. Celebrating authenticity and practicing hybridity

5. Nationalism as a disciplinary regime

Salle d'Attente

6. Lawyering the nation

7. Nation-building and the containment of legality

8. Dead law and Statism: a suggested lesson.

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Includes bibliography and index.

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0521631831

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xiii, 216 p.