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  • Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850
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  • Richard J. Ross
  • 2013
  • Published by: NYU Press
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This wide-ranging volume advances our understanding of law and empire in the early modern world. Distinguished contributors expose new dimensions of legal pluralism in the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Ottoman empires. In-depth analyses probe such topics as the shifting legal privileges of corporations, the intertwining of religious and legal thought, and the effects of clashing legal authorities on sovereignty and subjecthood. Case studies show how a variety of individuals engage with the law and shape the contours of imperial rule.

The volume reaches from Peru to New Zealand to Europe to capture the varieties and continuities of legal pluralism and to probe the analytic power of the concept of legal pluralism in the comparative study of empires. For legal scholars, social scientists, and historians, Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 maps new approaches to the study of empires and the global history of law.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page
  2. pp. 2-7
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-9
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-11
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  1. 1 Empires and Legal Pluralism: Jurisdiction, Sovereignty, and Political Imagination in the Early Modern World
  2. pp. 1-18
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  1. PART I: COMPOSITE POLITIES ACROSS EMPIRES
  2. pp. 19-31
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  1. 2 “Bundles of Hyphens”: Corporations as Legal Communities in the Early Modern British Empire
  2. pp. 21-48
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  1. 3 Litigating Empire: The Role of French Courts in Establishing Colonial Sovereignties
  2. pp. 49-80
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  1. PART II: POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS IMAGINATION
  2. pp. 81-93
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  1. 4 Aspects of Legal Pluralism in the Ottoman Empire
  2. pp. 83-108
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  1. 5 Reconstructing Early Modern Notions of Legal Pluralism
  2. pp. 109-142
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  1. 6 Between Justice and Economics: “Indians” and Reformism in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Imperial Thought
  2. pp. 143-170
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  1. PART III: CONSTRUCTING IMPERIAL JURISDICTION
  2. pp. 171-183
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  1. 7 Magistrates in Empire: Convicts, Slaves, and the Remaking of the Plural Legal Order in the British Empire
  2. pp. 173-198
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  1. 8 “Seeking the Water of Baptism”: Fugitive Slaves and Imperial Jurisdiction in the Early Modern Caribbean
  2. pp. 199-232
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  1. 9 “A Pretty Gov[ernment]!”: The “Confederation of United Tribes” and Britain’s Quest for Imperial Order in the New Zealand Islands during the 1830s
  2. pp. 233-258
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  1. PART IV: CONCLUDING PERSPECTIVES
  2. pp. 259-271
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  1. 10 Laws’ Histories: Pluralisms, Pluralities, Diversity
  2. pp. 261-278
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  1. 11 Rules of Law, Politics of Empire
  2. pp. 279-294
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  1. About the Contributors
  2. pp. 295-298
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 299-314
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