This book advances a new perspective in World history, arguing that institutions and culture--and not just the global economy--serve as important elements of international order.
Benton shows how Indigenous subjects.
Focusing on Colonial Legal politics and the interrelation of local cultural contests and institutional change, it uses case studies to trace a shift in plural Legal orders--from the multicentric law of early empires to the state-centered law of the Colonial and postColonial world.
This book advances a new perspective in World history, arguing that institutions and culture--and not just the global economy--serve as important elements of international order