Rule of Laws (eBook)

A 4000-year Quest to Order the World

Pirie Fernanda Pirie (Autor)

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2021
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-580-6 (ISBN)

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'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 WarThe 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.

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An ambitious account of the rise and fall of the world's great legal systems ... richly informative and consistently thought-provoking .. Fernanda Pirie's work will command, and deserve, a wide readership

An intriguing synthesis of the history of global legal codes and their origins

In this panoramic history, Pirie tells the story of the rise and fall of systems of law across the civilizations, empires, and societies of the ancient and modern world ... Pirie argues that if the history of law has a common theme, it is that laws are not simply rules

Agile [and] convincing ... A valuable study for students of the law and its evolution over the millennia

In the exploration of Big questions concerning the law, legality, legal traditions and suchlike, [The Rule of Laws] will occupy an important position. It asks some fundamental questions, including where did the concept of law - and thence of the rule of law - originate? ... A vast canvas ... magisterial

Exceptionally rich

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.11.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 16PP colour
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: cicero the republic and the laws • dharmashastras • Jamestown • Leviathan Thomas Hobbes • mesopotamia the invention of the city gwendolyn leick • Ottoman Empire • ottoman odyssey alev scott • Qing Dynasty • Shari’a • the rule of law tom bingham • Torah • Ur • Vasco da Gama • vedas
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-580-6 / 1782835806
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-580-6 / 9781782835806