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The uses of justice in global perspective, 1600-1900 / edited by Griet Vermeesch, Manon van der Heijden, and Jaco Zuijderduijn.
Vermeesch, Griet, editor.; Heijden, Manon van der, 1966- editor.; Zuijderduijn, C. J. (C. Jaco), editor.
2019
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The uses of justice in global perspective, 1600-1900 / edited by Griet Vermeesch, Manon van der Heijden, and Jaco Zuijderduijn.
Added Author
Vermeesch, Griet, editor.
Heijden, Manon van der, 1966- editor.
Zuijderduijn, C. J. (C. Jaco), editor.
Imprint
London : Routledge, 2019.
Description
1 online resource
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction / Manon van der Heijden and Griet Vermeesch
The Sinitic justice system, past and present in a global perspective / Philip C. C. Huang
Threads of the legal web : Dutch law and everyday colonialism in eighteenth-century Asia / Alicia Schrikker and Dries Lyna
Facing the law in eighteenth-century Galle / Nadeera Rupesinghe
Legal pluralism in the cities of the early modern Kingdom of Poland : the jurisdictional conflicts and uses of justice by Armenian merchants / Alexandr Osipian
The use and abuse of legal services in nineteenth-century Russia / Elizaveta Blagodeteleva
Skipping court : civil disputes in sixteenth-century Rouen / Katherine Godwin
In hope of agreement : norm and practice in the use of institutes for dispute settlement in late seventeenth-century Leiden / Aries van Meeteren and Griet Vermeesch
Justice and the confines of the law in early modern Spain / Tomás Mantecón
Lo extrajudicial : between court and community in the Spanish empire / Bianca Premo
Legal pluralism, hybridization and the uses of everyday criminal law in Quebec, 1760-1867 / Donald Fyson.
Summary
The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600-1900 presents a new perspective on the uses of justice between 1600 and 1900 and confronts prevailing Eurocentric historiography in its examination of how people of this period made use of the law. Between 1600 and 1900 the towns in Western Europe, the Kingdoms in Eastern Europe, the Empires in Asia and the Colonial States in Asia and the Americas were all characterised by a plurality of legal orders resulting from interactions and negotiations between states, institutions, and people with different backgrounds. Through exploring how justice is used within these different areas of the world, this book offers a broad global perspective, but it also adopts a fresh approach through shifting attention away from states and onto how ordinary people lived with and made use of this 'legal pluralism'. Containing a wealth of extensively contextualised case studies and contributing to debates on socio-legal history, processes of state formation from below, access to justice, and legal pluralism, The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600-1900 questions to what degree top-down imposed formal institutions were used and how, and to what degree, bottom-up crafted legal systems were crucial in allowing transactions to happen. It is ideal for students and scholars of early modern justice, crime and legal history.
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Includes index.
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Taylor & Francis Online
Language
English
ISBN
9780429022333 (electronic book)
0429022336 (electronic book)
9780429663758 (electronic book : EPUB)
0429663757 (electronic book : EPUB)
9780429661037 (electronic book : Mobipocket)
0429661037 (electronic book : Mobipocket)
9780429666476 (electronic book : PDF)
0429666470 (electronic book : PDF)
9781138476783 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9781138476790 (paperback : alkaline paper)
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