Colonizing Hawai'i : : The Cultural Power of Law / / Sally Engle Merry.
How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seducti...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 23 halftones 1 map 4 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- A NOTE ON LANGUAGE AND TERMINOLOGY
- ONE Introduction
- PART ONE: ENCOUNTERS IN A CONTACT ZONE: NEW ENGLAND MISSIONARIES, LAWYERS, AND THE APPROPRIATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN LAW, 1820-1852
- TWO The Process of Legal Transformation
- THREE The First Transition: Religious Law
- FOUR The Second Transition: Secular Law
- PART TWO: LOCAL PRACTICES OF POLICING AND JUDGING IN HILO, HAWAI'I
- FIVE The Social History of a Plantation Town
- SIX Judges and Caseloads in Hilo
- SEVEN Protest and the Law on the Hilo Sugar Plantations
- EIGHT Sexuality, Marriage, and the Management of the Body
- NINE Conclusions
- APPENDIXES
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX