Legal Histories of the British Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Laws, Engagements and Legacies
Redaktion: Dorsett, Shaunnagh; Mclaren, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Too often law is still relegated to one of a number of forces or trajectories - for example the movements of military forces and commodities - that circulated and operated in Empire. This collection seeks to investigate law's central place in the British Empire, and the role of its agents in embedding British rule and culture in colonial territories. Showcasing the richness and diversity of writing about law in Empire, it illuminates the continuities and discontinuities of law's effects in Empire and the ways in which law was a crucial element in the manifestation of Empire itself. It will be of considerable interest to legal historians, top historians of Empire, and anyone concerned with Empire's contemporary legacy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317915737
• Artikelnr.: 40831095

Autorenporträt

Shaunnagh Dorsett is Professor of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her work focuses on Crown-Indigenous relations in colonial New South Wales / New Zealand and sovereignty formation in the first half of the nineteenth century. John McLaren is Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Victoria, British Columbia. His research interests lie in the field of Canadian and Comparative Colonial Legal History. He has written widely and edited several books of essays in those fields.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The New Legal Histories of Empire Part I - Framing Empire:
People and Institutions The Rule of Law and the Perils of Judicial Tenure
in Britain's Caribbean Colonies, 1800-1868 To Sit or not to Sit: The Debate
over the Inclusion of Indigenous Judges in the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council Cultural expertise and social vision: Justice Amir Ali's
interpretation of Indian tradition A Judicial Maverick: John Gorrie at
large in the Victorian Empire Part II - Laws Benjamin Knowles v. Rex:
Judging Murder, Race, and Respectability from Colonial Ghana to the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1928-30 Inventing Extraordinary
Criminality: A Study of Criminalization by the Calcutta Goondas Act
Burton's Draft 1838 Act for the Amelioration of the Aboriginal Natives
(NSW) A Single Site for Modernising Nineteenth Century Law: India and the
UK Part III - Engagements "Empires, Law, and First Nations in Northern
North America, 1500-1760 "Understanding "Chinese Customs": the Irish Judges
and the Sinchew Disputes in the Straits Settlements, 1830s-1870s
Translating the Hedaya: Colonial Foundations of Islamic Law Legacies of
Empires: Race and Labor Contracts in the Upper Mississippi River Valley,
1808-1837 Part IV - Legacies Slavery, Villeinage, and the Law in Imperial
Britain "Macaulay: Liberal Imperialist or Progressive Law Reformer? The
India Penal Code and Labour Mobilities of Law: Indigenous Specters and
Indian Migration, 1914 A Slave Trade Jurisdiction: Attempts against the
slave trade and the making of a space of rights in the Arabo-Persian Gulf,
the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea (1820-1900)