Legal histories of the British empire : laws, engagements and legacies /: laws, engagements and legacies. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Shaunnaugh Dorsett and John McLaren.
• Editors: Dorsett, Shaunnagh; Mclaren, John
• Contents: Laws, engagements, and legacies : the legal histories of the British Empire, an introduction / Shaunnagh Dorsett and John McLaren -- 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 -- Asserting judicial sovereignty : the debate over the abolition of Privy Council jurisdiction in British Africa / Bonny Ibhawoh -- Law, culture and history : Amir Ali's interpretation of Islamic tradition / Nandini Chatterjee -- A judicial maverick: John Gorrie at large in the Victorian empire / Bridget Brereton -- Benjamin Knowles v. Rex : judging murder, race and respectability from colonial Ghana to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1928-30 / Stacey Hynd -- Inventing extraordinary criminality : a study of criminalization by the Calcutta Goondas Act / Sugata Nandi -- Sovereignties in dispute : the Komagata Maru and spectral indigeneities, 1914 / Renisa Mawani -- Imperial legacies: chartered enterprises in northern British America / Philip Girard -- Understanding "Chinese customs" : Sinchew rulings in the Straits Settlements, 1830s-1870s / Stephanie Po-yin Chung -- Translating the hedaya : colonial foundations of Islamic law / John Strawson -- Travelling laws : Burton and the Draft Act for the Protection and Amelioration of the Aborigines 1838 (NSW) / Shaunnagh Dorsett -- Legacies of empire : race and labor contracts in the Upper Mississippi River valley / Allison Gorsuch -- Empire on trial : slavery, villeinage, and law in imperial Britain / Dana Rabin -- Macaulay's India law reforms and labour in the British Empire / Barry Wright -- 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.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 349/.11241; Law -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History; Law -- Commonwealth countries -- History; HISTORY -- Civilization; HISTORY -- Expeditions & Discoveries; LAW -- General; LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Law; Recht; Kolonialrecht; Commonwealth countries; Great Britain; Großbritannien; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317915737; 1317915739; 9781315851457; 1315851458; 1306708125; 9781306708128; 9781317915744; 1317915747
• Related ISBNs: 9780415728928; 0415728924
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.