Law and Empire
Ideas, Practices, Actors
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Word Count
90,000 words, Guess
Page Count
360 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL29694571M
- ISBN-139789004249516
- OCLC Control Number846846994
- Library of Congress Control Number2013021985
Classifications
- LCCK555.L389 2013eb
Description
"Law and Empire provides a comparative view of legal practices in Asia and Europe, from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. It relates the main principles of legal thinking in Chinese, Islamic, and European contexts to practices of lawmaking and adjudication. In particular, it shows how legal procedure and legal thinking could be used in strikingly different ways. Rulers could use law effectively as an instrument of domination; legal specialists built their identity, livelihood and social status on their knowledge of law; and non-elites exploited the range of legal fora available to them. This volume shows the relevance of legal pluralism and the social relevance of litigation for premodern power structures."-
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