Legal histories of the British empire (Record no. 50029)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781138950870
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name International Book Distributors
Distributor address Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartments, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002.
Bill Number 112601
Bill Date 26/07/2018.
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 349.11241 DOR
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Shaunnagh Dorsett
-- ; John Mclaren.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Legal histories of the British empire
Remainder of title : laws, engagements and legacies.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Shaunnagh Dorsett.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York, NY
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2014.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 255 pages
Other physical details : illustrations
Dimensions ; 24 cm.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Contents note Laws, engagements, and legacies : the legal histories of the British Empire --<br/>an introduction / Shaunnagh Dorsett and John McLaren --<br/>Navigating the scylla of imperial politico-legal aspirations and charybdis of colonial micro-politics in the British Empire : the case of the judges / John McLaren --<br/>Asserting judicial sovereignty : the debate over the abolition of Privy Council jurisdiction in British Africa / Bonny Ibhawoh --<br/>Law, culture and history : Amir Ali's interpretation of Islamic law / Nandini Chatterjee --<br/>A judicial maverick : John Gorrie at large in the Victorian empire / Bridget Brereton --<br/>Benjamin Knowles v. Rex : judging murder, race and respectability from colonial Ghana to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1928-30 / Stacey Hynd --<br/>Inventing extraordinary criminality : a study of criminalization by the Calcutta Goondas Act / Sugata Nandi --<br/>Sovereignties in dispute : the Komagata Maru and spectral indigeneities, 1914 / Renisa Mawani --<br/>Imperial legacies : chartered enterprises in Northern British America / Philip Girard --<br/>Understanding "Chinese customs" : Sinchew rulings in the Straits Settlements, 1830s-1870s / Stephanie Po-yin Chung --<br/>Translating the hedaya : colonial foundations of Islamic law / John Strawson --<br/>Travelling laws : Burton and the Draft Act for the Protection and Amelioration of the Aborigines 1838 (NSW) / Shaunnagh Dorsett --<br/>Legacies of empire : race and labor contracts in the Upper Mississippi River Valley / Allison Gorsuch --<br/>Empire on trial : slavery, villeinage, and law in imperial Britain / Dana Rabin --<br/>Macaulay's India law reforms and labour in the British Empire / Barry Wright --<br/>'A slave trade jurisdiction' : attempts against the slave trade and the making of a space of law (Arabo-Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, circa 1820-1900) / Guillemette Crouzet.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "A 'new' approach to legal history in the British Empire is emerging. Rather than the traditional 'single site' approach taken by colonial legal historians, scholars are increasingly engaging in work which is pan-colonial, comparative, or which, if it is focused on a particular colony, seeks to place that site within the broader legal, political, cultural and intellectual frameworks of Empire. It focuses on the comparisons, the mobilities, the continuities and the ruptures of legal engagement across the globe. This book brings together established senior scholars with exciting newer authors from a range of disciplines, in order to present just such an approach to the law in and of Empire. Too often law is still relegated to one of a number of forces or trajectories - for example the movements of military forces and commodities that circulated and operated in Empire. This collection seeks, therefore, to investigate law's central place in the British Empire, and the role of its agents in embedding British rule and culture in colonial territories. Showcasing the richness and diversity of writing about law in Empire, it illuminates the continuities and discontinuities of law's effects in Empire and the ways in which law was a crucial element in the manifestation of Empire itself. It will be of considerable interest to legal historians, top historians of Empire, and anyone concerned with Empire's contemporary legacy."
655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Law.
Non-focus term Commonwealth countries.
-- History.
-- Great Britain.
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Shaunnagh Dorsett.
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Koha item type Books
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 17/08/2018 3134.00   349.11241 DOR 25473 17/08/2018 17/08/2018 Books

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