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The Rule of Laws

A 4000-year Quest to Order the World

Pirie, Fernanda

The Rule of Laws

The Rule of Laws

A 4000-year Quest to Order the World

The Rule of Laws

 

From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations The laws now enforced throughout the world are almost all modelled on systems developed in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.


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Beschrijving The Rule of Laws

From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations

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.

'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


ISBN
9781788163033
Pagina's
576
Verschenen
NUR
820
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Profile Books Ltd

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