Advances an interesting perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture - and not just the global economy - serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics and the interrelation of local and indigenous cultural contests and institutional change, the book uses case studies to trace a shift in plural legal orders - from ...(展开全部)

Advances an interesting perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture - and not just the global economy - serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics and the interrelation of local and indigenous cultural contests and institutional change, the book uses case studies to trace a shift in plural legal orders - from ...(展开全部)

A Search for Sovereignty, first published in 2010, approaches world history by examining the relation of law and geography in European empires between 1400 and 1900. Lauren Benton argues that Europeans imagined imperial space as networks of corridors and enclaves, and that they constructed sovereignty in ways that merged ideas about geography and law. Conflicts over treason, pi...(展开全部)

A Search for Sovereignty, first published in 2010, approaches world history by examining the relation of law and geography in European empires between 1400 and 1900. Lauren Benton argues that Europeans imagined imperial space as networks of corridors and enclaves, and that they constructed sovereignty in ways that merged ideas about geography and law. Conflicts over treason, pi...(展开全部)

A Search for Sovereignty, first published in 2010, approaches world history by examining the relation of law and geography in European empires between 1400 and 1900. Lauren Benton argues that Europeans imagined imperial space as networks of corridors and enclaves, and that they constructed sovereignty in ways that merged ideas about geography and law. Conflicts over treason, pi...(展开全部)

A Search for Sovereignty, first published in 2010, approaches world history by examining the relation of law and geography in European empires between 1400 and 1900. Lauren Benton argues that Europeans imagined imperial space as networks of corridors and enclaves, and that they constructed sovereignty in ways that merged ideas about geography and law. Conflicts over treason, pi...(展开全部)

The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking's varied public arenas, the city's transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint. This study shows how modern Beijing's glittering image...(展开全部)

【内容简介】 公元15—19世纪，曾经邦国林立的印度次大陆，逐步成为莫卧儿和英帝国这样大型帝国的舞台。本书揭示了在这改变印度、亚洲乃至世界命运的五个世纪间，帝国的凝视和控制与地方对帝国权力的抵制如何共同塑造了次大陆的景观，而帝国力量的消长又如何与帝国环境知识的形成过程交织在一起。 本书对帝国生态学的研究根植于扎实的历史研究，运用了大量此前鲜有人关注的档案文献。在帝国的支配之下，关于世界的地方性知识被转化为聚合性信息，后者又生产出了统治这个世界的中央集权。正是这种政治生态学重塑了整个生物群落——动植物被迁往他处；人类社群或背井离乡或灰飞烟灭；有的物种欣欣向荣，另一些物种则销声匿迹。然而，这些国家工程并非在无基之地凭空起楼，而是建基在由神圣宇宙观、朝圣路线、河流浅滩、名木奇石等构成的多重地方性和区域性地理学之上。 【名家推荐】 南亚环境史是一个底蕴深厚、...(展开全部)

Richard Posner is famous throughout the legal world for his pioneering and controversial espousal of the belief that the study of law cannot be divorced from the study of economics. Here, in this volume of essays based upon his Clarendon Lectures, he explores the relationship between the legal systems of the UK and USA. The essays in this volume range widely over themes which w...(展开全部)

Interpretation has emerged in recent years as one of the most interesting and important elements of legal scholarship. This collection of new essays in law and interpretation provides an overview of this important topic, written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. The collection assesses the role of legislative intent in the interpretation of statutes, and ...(展开全部)