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Negotiating Mughal law : a family of landlords across three Indian empires
Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the twentieth century. By exploring their daily interactions with imperial elites as well as villagers and marauders, Chatterjee offers a new histor…
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- 9781108623391
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- xii, 233p. ; ill.
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- 349.5430903
A global history of ideas in the language of law
This book argues that the narrowing focus of the global history of ideas on narratives in historical research, philosophy and political theory neglects the fact that the central concepts of the history of political ideas are articulated in the language of law. Key figures of the history of ideas, like Kant, Hegel and Weber, engaged deeply with the philosophy and sociology of law. This monograph…
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- 9783944773315
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- xi, 309 p. : ill.
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- Global Perspectives on Legal History volume 16
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- 340.14 SCH a
The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625-1800
Twelve international scholars offer innovative studies of the law of nations from the Peace of Westphalia to the Enlightenment. The focus is on little known contexts and sources, and on novel interpretations of classics in the field. Readership: Philosophers, historians, legal scholars and political theorists interested in the history of international law, and anyone concerned with modern natur…
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- 9789004384200
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- 341.09033 ZUR t
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