Norms Beyond Empire : : Law-Making and Local Normativities in Iberian Asia, 1500-1800 / / Manuel Bastias Saavedra.

• Superior document: Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds Series ; Volume 3
• VerfasserIn: Bastias Saavedra, Manuel,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Max Planck studies in global legal history of the Iberian worlds ; Volume 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 355 pages) :; illustrations (some color)
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004472835
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Manuel Bastias Saavedra.

"Norms beyond Empire seeks to rethink the relationship between law and empire by emphasizing the role of local normative production. While European imperialism is often viewed as being able to shape colonial law and government to its image, this volume argues that early modern empires could never monolithically control how these processes unfolded. Examining the Iberian empires in Asia, it seeks to look at norms as a means of escaping the often too narrow concept of law and look beyond empire to highlight the ways in which law-making and local normativities frequently acted beyond colonial rule. The ten chapters explore normative production from this perspective by focusing on case studies from China, India, Japan, and the Philippines. Contributors are: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Marya Svetlana T. Camacho, Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva, Ro^mulo da Silva Ehalt, Patricia Souza de Faria, Fupeng Li, Miguel Rodrigues Lourenc¸o, Abisai Perez Zamarripa, Marina Torres Trima´llez, and A^ngela Barreto Xavier"--