Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition /

Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition / / Clifford Ando.

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The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford Ando demonstrates in Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition, the civil law was also an instrument of empire: many of its most characteristic featu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
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Ando, Clifford,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Empire and After
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Citizen and Alien before the Law
  • Chapter 2. Law's Empire
  • Chapter 3. Empire and the Laws of War
  • Chapter 4. Sovereignty and Solipsism in Democratic Empires
  • Chapter 5. Domesticating Domination
  • Appendix. Work-arounds in Roman Law: The Fiction and Its Kin
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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