Legal Histories of Empire : Navigating Legalities (Hardcover)

1. Navigating Legalities: Legal Histories of Empires?Lyndsay Campbell and Shaunnagh Dorsett?Part 1: Legalities?2. Gerald of Wales, John Davies, and the Laws of the Irish in an English Colonial Perspective?Craig Lyons?3. Constituting a Colonial Crisis: Kielley v. Carson, St. John’s, 1838-43?Lyndsay Campbell?4. Recrafting Subjecthood through Exceptional Laws in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire?Amanda Nettelbeck?5. Making Empire: Writing the 1833 Ceylon Charter of Justice and Curial Reform in the British Empire?Shaunnagh Dorsett?Part 2: Negotiating Legalities?6. Resisting and Extending Empire: How the Acadian People Shaped British and French Imperial Rule Through the Strategic Use of Law?Robert Hamilton?7.?Arbitration and Empire: The Anti-Adjudicatory State in Bengal and British America, 1763?1775?Christian R. Burset?8. Legally Interconnecting Empires in the Americas: The Circulation of ‘Foreign’ Law Books in Quebec and Louisiana from the 17^th to the Early 19^th Century?Serge Dauchy?9. Protestant State, Catholic Subjects: Religion, Law and Caste in Early Colonial Madras?Aparna Balachandran?10. Goomany Naik: Fragments of A ‘Non-Traditional’ Legal Biography?Nishant Gokhale?Part 3: Subverting Empire: Legalities and Illegalities?11. Creative Friction, Legal Pluralism and the Eighteenth-Century Smuggling Economy in the Channel Islands?David Chan Smith?12. The ‘Price’ of War: The Criminalization and Punishment of Profiteers in Southern Nigeria during World War II?Yolanda Chinelo Osondu?13. Anxieties of Whiteness: Evidence, Race, and Emotions in the (Non-)Prosecution of the “Malayan ‘Sexual Perversion’ Cases,” 1938-1940?Jack Jin Gary Lee?14. Merchant Seafarers on British Ships: Lascars, Labour, Law and Empire in the Early 20^th Century?Diane Kirkby