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Law and empire: ideas, practices, actors

Duindam, J. and Harries, J. and Humfress, Caroline and Hurvitz, N., eds. (2013) Law and empire: ideas, practices, actors. Rulers & Elites 3. Leiden, Germany: Brill. ISBN 9789004245297.

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Book synopsis: Law and Empire provides a comparative view of legal practices in Asia and Europe, from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. It relates the main principles of legal thinking in Chinese, Islamic, and European contexts to practices of lawmaking and adjudication. In particular, it shows how legal procedure and legal thinking could be used in strikingly different ways. Rulers could use law effectively as an instrument of domination; legal specialists built their identity, livelihood and social status on their knowledge of law; and non-elites exploited the range of legal fora available to them. This volume shows the relevance of legal pluralism and the social relevance of litigation for premodern power structures.

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Item Type: Book
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
Depositing User: Administrator
Date Deposited: 21 May 2013 10:00
Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:04
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/6925

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