Legal Histories of Empire

Navigating Legalities

Lyndsay Campbell, Shaunnagh Dorsett (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

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Routledge
11 October 2024

Colonialism & imperialism; Legal history; International law; Land & real estate law

This collection brings together an international group of scholars in order to provide new insights into the diversity of imperial legalities.

Across empires, legalities were produced not just – or even – through the imperial imposition of laws and legal forms, but through local processes of negotiation and contestation. Far from the metropoles, local actors found ways to creatively navigate and subvert imperial frameworks and laws and to create space in which to shape new legalities, responsive to local circumstance and need. Covering topics as diverse as smuggling in eighteenth century Jersey, the criminalisation of female market women in World War II-era southern Nigeria, and whiteness and race in ‘sexual perversion’ cases in twentieth-century Malaya, the collection elaborates new legal histories of empire. Drawing from Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, the USA, India, Sri Lanka, Africa and Malaysia, the collection brings together chapters that examine the stories of the peoples of empires and shows how they constituted, experienced, navigated and subverted the legal complexities of living under empire.

This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in law and history, but also to those with relevant interests in post-colonial and cultural studies, as well as in criminology and sociology.

Edited by: Lyndsay Campbell, Shaunnagh Dorsett (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 757g
ISBN: 9781032616179
ISBN 10: 1032616172
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 11 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lyndsay Campbell is Professor in the Faculty of Law and Department of History, University of Calgary, Canada. Shaunnagh Dorsett is Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.