(Source: Routledge)
Next month, Routledge
is publishing a new book on uses of justice in a global perspective during the
period 1600-1900.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Uses of
Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900 presents a new perspective on the uses
of justice between 1600 and 1900 and confronts prevailing Eurocentric
historiography in its examination of how people of this period made use of the
law.
Between 1600 and
1900 the towns in Western Europe, the Kingdoms in Eastern Europe, the Empires
in Asia and the Colonial States in Asia and the Americas were all characterized
by a plurality of legal orders resulting from interactions and negotiations
between states, institutions, and people with different backgrounds. Through
exploring how justice is used within these different areas of the world, this
book offers a broad global perspective, but it also adopts a fresh approach through
shifting attention away from states and onto how ordinary people lived with and
made use of this ‘legal pluralism’.
Containing a
wealth of extensively contextualised case studies and contributing to debates
on socio-legal history, processes of state formation from below, access to
justice, and legal pluralism, The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective,
1600–1900 questions to what degree top-down imposed formal institutions were
used and how, and to what degree, bottom-up crafted legal systems were crucial
in allowing transactions to happen. It is ideal for students and scholars of
early modern justice, crime and legal history.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Manon van der Heijden is Professor of Urban History
at Leiden University and a member of the Academia Europaea. She recently
published Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland (2016).
Jaco Zuijderduijn is Associate Professor at the Department
of Economic History at Lund University, Sweden. His main research interest is
the development of economic exchange and conflict resolution. He previously
published Medieval Capital Markets: Markets for Renten, State Formation
and Private Investment in Holland (1300–1550).
Griet Vermeesch is a fellow of the Research Foundation
Flanders at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, in Belgium. Her research relates
to urban history and to access to justice in the Low Countries during the early
modern period.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Introduction
Manon van der
Heijden and Griet Vermeesch
2 The
Sinitic Justice System, Past and Present – in a Global Perspective
Philip
C. C. Huang
3 Threads
of the legal web. Dutch law and everyday colonialism in eighteenth-century Asia
Alicia
Schrikker and Dries Lyna
4 Facing
the Law in Eighteenth-century Galle
Nadeera
Rupesinghe
5 Legal
pluralism in the cities of the early modern Kingdom of Poland: the
jurisdictional conflicts and uses of justice by Armenian merchants
Alexandr
Osipian
6 The Use
and Abuse of Legal Services in Nineteenth-century Russia
Elizaveta
Blagodeteleva
7 Skipping
Court: Civil Disputes in Sixteenth-Century Rouen
Katherine
Godwin
8 In hope
of agreement. Norm and practice in the use of institutes for dispute settlement
in late seventeenth-century Leiden
Aries van Meeteren
and Griet Vermeesch
9 Justice
and the confines of the law in Early Modern Spain
Tomás
Mantecón
10 Lo
extrajudicial: Between Court and Community in the Spanish Empire
Bianca
Premo
11 Legal
pluralism, hybridization and the uses of everyday criminal law in Quebec,
1760-1867
Donald
Fyson
Index
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