Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought

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Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought

Author	: S. Dorsett
File Size	: 43,5 Mb
Publisher	: Springer
Language	: English
Release Date	: 08 November 2010
ISBN	: 9780230114388
Pages	: 276 pages

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Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought by S. Dorsett Book PDF Summary

A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss colonial deployments of European law and politics via the concept of ideology.

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