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Legal Histories of the British Empire

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Legal Histories of the British Empire book

Laws, engagements and legacies

Legal Histories of the British Empire

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Legal Histories of the British Empire book

Laws, engagements and legacies
Edited ByShaunnagh Dorsett, John McLaren
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 7 May 2014
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315851457
Pages 270
eBook ISBN 9781315851457
Subjects Humanities, Law
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Dorsett, S., & McLaren, J. (Eds.). (2014). Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315851457

ABSTRACT

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, the authors provide in-depth analyses which shine new light on the role of law in creating the people and places of the British Empire. Ranging from the United States, through Calcutta, across Australasia to the Gold Coast, these essays seek 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.

One of the first collections to provide a sustained engagement with the legal histories of the British Empire, in particular beyond the settler colonies, this work aims to encourage further scholarship and new approaches to the writing of the histories of that Empire. Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies will be of value not only to legal scholars and graduate students, but of interest to all of those who want to know more about the laws in and of the British Empire.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|11 pages

Laws, engagements and legacies

The legal histories of the British Empire: An introduction
ByShaunnagh Dorsett, John McLaren

part I|61 pages

Framing empire

chapter 2|15 pages

Navigating the Scylla of imperial politico-legal aspirations and Charybdis of colonial micropolitics in the British Empire

The case of the judges
ByJohn McLaren

chapter 3|15 pages

Asserting judicial sovereignty

The debate over the abolition of Privy Council jurisdiction in British Africa
ByBonny Ibhawoh

chapter 4|15 pages

Law, culture and history

Amir Ali’s interpretation of Islamic law
ByNandini Chatterjee

chapter 5|14 pages

A judicial maverick

John Gorrie at large in the Victorian Empire
ByBridget Brereton

part II|49 pages

Laws

chapter 6|15 pages

Benjamin Knowles v Rex

Judging murder, race and respectability from colonial Ghana to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1928–30
ByStacey Hynd

chapter 7|15 pages

Inventing extraordinary criminality

A study of criminalization by the Calcutta Goondas Act
BySugata Nandi

chapter 8|17 pages

Sovereignties in dispute

The Komagata Maru and spectral indigeneities, 1914 1
ByRenisa Mawani

part III|61 pages

Engagements

chapter 9|14 pages

Imperial legacies

Chartered enterprises in Northern British America
ByPhilip Girard

chapter 10|16 pages

Understanding ‘Chinese customs’

Sinchew rulings in the Straits Settlements, 1830s–1870s
ByStephanie Po-yin Chung

chapter 11|14 pages

Translating the Hedaya

Colonial foundations of Islamic law
ByJohn Strawson

chapter 12|15 pages

Travelling laws

Burton and the Draft Act for the Protection and Amelioration of the Aborigines 1838 (NSW)
ByShaunnagh Dorsett

part IV|62 pages

Legacies

chapter 13|14 pages

Legacies of empire

Race and labour contracts in the Upper Mississippi River Valley
ByAllison Gorsuch

chapter 14|15 pages

Empire on trial

Slavery, villeinage and law in imperial Britain
ByDana Rabin

chapter 15|16 pages

Macaulay’s India law reforms and labour in the British Empire

ByBarry Wright

chapter 16|15 pages

‘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)
ByGuillemette Crouzet
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