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020			_z9780814771167 (hbk.)
020			_z9780814708361 (pbk.)
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040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aK3375.A6 _bL44 2013
082	0	0	_a342/.04130903 _223
245	0	0	_aLegal pluralism and empires, 1500-1850 _h[electronic resource] / _cedited by Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross.
260			_aNew York : _bNew York University Press, _c[2013] _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (ix, 314 pages )
500			_a"This volume developed out of a 2010 conference on New Perspectives on Legal Pluralism organized by Lauren Benton and Richard Ross through the Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History ... under the auspices of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago" -- Acknowledgments.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aEmpires and legal pluralism : jurisdiction, sovereignty, and political imagination in the early modern world / Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross -- "Bundles of hyphens" : corporations as legal communities in the early modern British empire / Philip J. Stern -- Litigating empire : the role of French courts in establishing colonial sovereignties / Helen Dewar -- Aspects of legal pluralism in the ottoman empire / Karen Barkey -- Reconstructing early modern notions of legal pluralism / Richard J. Ross and Philip J. Stern -- Between justice and economics : "Indians" and reformism in eighteenth-century Spanish imperial thought / Brian Owensby -- Magistrates in empire : convicts, slaves, and the remaking of the plural legal order in the British Empire / Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford -- "Seeking the water of baptism" : fugitive slaves and imperial jurisdiction in the early modern Caribbean / Linda Rupert -- "A pretty gov[ernment]!" : the "confederation of united tribes" and Britain's quest for imperial order in the New Zealand islands during the 1830s / P. G. McHugh -- Laws' histories : pluralisms, pluralities, diversity / Paul D. Halliday -- Rules of law, politics of empire / Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aLegal polycentricity _vCongresses.
650		0	_aColonies _xLaw and legislation _vCongresses.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
700	1		_aRoss, Richard Jeffrey, _eeditor of compilation.
700	1		_aBenton, Lauren A., _eeditor of compilation.
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814708316/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c32817 _d32817