The rule of laws : a 4,000-year quest to order the world / Fernanda Pirie.

Yer Numarası
A.IX/5027
ISBN
9781788163033
9781782835806 (eISBN)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Kütüphane
Türk Tarih Kurumu Kütüphanesi
Basım Bildirimi
First published [1. baskı].
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Profile Books, 2022.
Fiziksel Niteleme
iv, 570 sayfa, [16] sayfa resim, portre, minyatür, tıpkıbasım : resim (çoğu renki), portre (çoğu renkli), minyatür (renkli), tıpkıbasım (renkli) ; 20 cm
Genel Not
İndeks s. 550-570.
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Bibliyografik notlar s. 461-516.
Bibliyografya s. 517-547.
İçindekiler Notu
Introduction: The promise of law -- PART I. VISIONS OF ORDER. Mesopotamia and the lands of the Bible -- Indian Brahmins: the order of the cosmos -- Chinese emperors: codes, punishments, and bureaucracy -- Advocates and jurists: intellectual pursuits in ancient Rome -- Jewish and Islamic scholars: God's path for the world -- European kings: courts and customs after the fall of Rome -- PART II. THE PROMISE OF CIVILIZATION. At the margins: lawmaking on the fringes of Christianity and Islam -- Embracing the laws of religion: the Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim worlds -- Imperial law and divine justice in Medieval China -- Courts and customs in the European Middle Ages -- The problem of judgement: oaths, ordeals and evidence -- PART III. ORDERING THE WORLD. From kings to empires: the rise of Europe and America -- Colonialism: exporting the law -- In the shadow of the state: Islamic law in the modern world -- Turning their backs on the state: tribes, villages, networks, and gangs -- Beyond the state: international laws-- Conclusion: The rule of laws.
Özet, vb.
“From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations '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 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“ -- Yayıncı.