Law and colonial cultures : legal regimes in world history, 1400-1900 / Lauren Benton.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Colonies -- Law and legislation.

International law -- History.

International relations -- History.

1. Legal regimes and colonial cultures

2. Law in diaspora: the legal regimes 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.

Includes bibliography and index.

052100926x

xiii, 285p