This book advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture--and not just the global economy--serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics and the interrelation of local cultural contests and institutional change, it uses case studies to trace a shift in plural legal orders--from the multicentric law of early empires to the state-centered law of the colonial and postcolonial world. Benton shows how Indigenous subjects across time were active in making, changing, and interpreting the law--and, by extension, in shaping...
This book advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture--and not just the global economy--serve as important elem...
A New York roofer requests payment in cash. A Bogota car mechanic sets up -shop- on a quiet side street. Four Mexican immigrants assemble semiconductors in a San Diego home. A Leningrad doctor sells needed medicine to a desperate patient. All are part of a growing worldwide phenomenon that is widely known but little understood. The informal or underground economy is thriving today, not only in the Third World countries where it was first reported and studied but also in Eastern Europe and the developed nations of the West.
The Informal Economy is the first book to bring...
A New York roofer requests payment in cash. A Bogota car mechanic sets up -shop- on a quiet side street. Four Mexican immigrants assemble semicondu...
This book advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture--and not just the global economy--serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics and the interrelation of local cultural contests and institutional change, it uses case studies to trace a shift in plural legal orders--from the multicentric law of early empires to the state-centered law of the colonial and postcolonial world. Benton shows how Indigenous subjects across time were active in making, changing, and interpreting the law--and, by extension, in shaping...
This book advances a new perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture--and not just the global economy--serve as important elem...
A Search for Sovereignty examines how European imperial powers imagined imperial space, constructing sovereignty in ways that merged geographic discourse with law.
A Search for Sovereignty examines how European imperial powers imagined imperial space, constructing sovereignty in ways that merged geographic discou...
