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Legal histories of the British empire : laws, engagements and legacies

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"A GlassHouse Book."

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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 law / 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.

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