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>> vii Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 Empires and Legal Pluralism: Jurisdiction, Sovereignty, and Political Imagination in the Early Modern World 1 Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross Part I: Composite Polities across Empires 2 “Bundles of Hyphens”: Corporations as Legal Communities in the Early Modern British Empire 21 Philip J. Stern 3 Litigating Empire: The Role of French Courts in Establishing Colonial Sovereignties 49 Helen Dewar Part II: Political and Religious Imagination 4 Aspects of Legal Pluralism in the Ottoman Empire 83 Karen Barkey 5 Reconstructing Early Modern Notions of Legal Pluralism 109 Richard J. Ross and Philip J. Stern 6 Between Justice and Economics: “Indians” and Reformism in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Imperial Thought 143 Brian P. Owensby Part III: Constructing Imperial Jurisdiction 7 Magistrates in Empire: Convicts, Slaves, and the Remaking of the Plural Legal Order in the British Empire 173 Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford 8 “Seeking the Water of Baptism”: Fugitive Slaves and Imperial Jurisdiction in the Early Modern Caribbean 199 Linda M. Rupert viii << Contents 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 233 P. G. McHugh Part IV: Concluding Perspectives 10 Laws’ Histories: Pluralisms, Pluralities, Diversity 261 Paul D. Halliday 11 Rules of Law, Politics of Empire 279 Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper About the Contributors 295 Index 299 ...