European Expansion and Law: The Encounter of European and Indigenous Law in the 19th- and 2th-Century Africa and Asia
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
European Expansion and Law: The Encounter of European and Indigenous Law in the 19th- and 2th-Century Africa and Asia
By (Author) J. A. de Moor
Edited by W. J. Mommsen
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Berg Publishers
1st September 2010
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
International institutions
Colonialism and imperialism
National liberation and independence
European history
Asian history
African history
341.28
Physical Properties
Hardback
339
Width 138mm, Height 216mm, Spine 22mm
Description
The history of European expansion overseas also includes the history of the expansion of concepts and principles of European law into the non-European world. The values and ideas it expressed have, to this day, deeply influenced indigenous societies and governments. At the same time indigenous concepts of law were 'discovered' and codified by European scholars. The outcome of this was a complex and intense interaction between European and local concepts of law, which resulted in many dual legal systems in the African and Asian colonies and which is examined in this volume by prominent historians, lawyers and legal anthropologists.
Author Bio
W. J. Mommsen Moor
