Name: The Rule of Laws: A 4000-year Quest to Order the World
Brand: Profile Books
SKU: 9781788163033
Price: 239.84 HKD
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Author: Fernanda Pirie
ISBN: 9781788163033

The Rule of Laws: A 4000-year Quest to Order the World

By Fernanda Pirie

Profile Books August 2022

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ISBN-13: 9781788163033
Publisher: Profile Books
Publication: August 2022
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.