The Rule of Laws - Fernanda Pirie

The Rule of Laws

A 4000-year Quest to Order the World

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
576 Seiten
2022 | Main
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78816-303-3 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations.
'A fascinating, comprehensive study that forces us to think again about what law is, and why it matters ... For those who want to understand why human society has emerged as it has, this is essential reading' Rana Mitter, author of China's Good War

The laws now enforced throughout the world are almost all modelled on systems developed in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During two hundred years of colonial rule, Europeans exported their laws everywhere they could. But they weren't filling a void: in many places, they displaced traditions that were already ancient when Vasco Da Gama first arrived in India.

Where, then, did it all begin? And what has law been and done over the course of human history? In The Rule of Laws, pioneering anthropologist Fernanda Pirie traces the development of the world's great legal systems - Chinese, Indian, Roman, and Islamic - and the innumerable smaller traditions they inspired.

Fernanda Pirie is professor of the anthropology of law at the University of Oxford. She is the author of The Anthropology of Law and has conducted fieldwork in the mountains of Ladakh and the grasslands of eastern Tibet. She previously spent almost a decade practising as a barrister.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 16PP colour
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 128 x 198 mm
Gewicht 460 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Recht / Steuern Rechtsgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-78816-303-6 / 1788163036
ISBN-13 978-1-78816-303-3 / 9781788163033
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