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Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Empire and After SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (181 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812204889
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman TraditionDDC classification:
  • 340.5/4
LOC classification:
  • KJA190 -- .A56 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Citizen and Alien before the Law -- Chapter 2. Law's Empire -- Chapter 3. Empire and the Laws of War -- Chapter 4. Sovereignty and Solipsism in Democratic Empires -- Chapter 5. Domesticating Domination -- Appendix. Work-arounds in Roman Law: The Fiction and Its Kin -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition demonstrates how Roman civil law functioned as an instrument of empire by tracking its application to the challenges of governing diverse and distant people.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Citizen and Alien before the Law -- Chapter 2. Law's Empire -- Chapter 3. Empire and the Laws of War -- Chapter 4. Sovereignty and Solipsism in Democratic Empires -- Chapter 5. Domesticating Domination -- Appendix. Work-arounds in Roman Law: The Fiction and Its Kin -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Acknowledgments.

Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition demonstrates how Roman civil law functioned as an instrument of empire by tracking its application to the challenges of governing diverse and distant people.

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