Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 / / ed. by Richard J. Ross, Lauren Benton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Barkey, Karen,; Benton, Lauren,; Burbank, Jane,; Cooper, Frederick,; Dewar, Helen,; Ford, Lisa,; Halliday, Paul D.,; McHugh, P. G.,; Owensby, Brian P.,; Ross, Richard J.,; Rupert, Linda M.,; Stern, Philip J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Benton, Lauren,; Ross, Richard J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Empires and Legal Pluralism --; Part I: Composite Polities across Empires --; 2. “Bundles of Hyphens” --; 3. Litigating Empire --; Part II: Political and Religious Imagination --; 4. Aspects of Legal Pluralism in the Ottoman Empire --; 5. Reconstructing Early Modern Notions of Legal Pluralism --; 6. Between Justice and Economics --; Part III: Constructing Imperial Jurisdiction --; 7. Magistrates in Empire --; 8. “Seeking the Water of Baptism” --; 9. “A Pretty Gov[ernment]!” --; Part IV: Concluding Perspectives --; 10. Laws’ Histories --; 11. Rules of Law, Politics of Empire --; About the Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814708316; 9783110706444
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814771167.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Richard J. Ross, Lauren Benton.

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.