Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism (Vol. II : Studies in Comparative Legal History.

Intro -- Modernisation, National Identity, and Legal Instrumentalism: Studies in Comparative Legal History -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Residential Right in the Course of Time: Changes in the Legal Institution of the Inkolat in the Bohemian Crown Lands -- 2 Legal Transfers and National Traditions: Patterns of Modernisation of the Administration in Polish Territories at the Turn of the 19th Century -- 3 National Modernisation through the Constitutional Revolution of 1848 in Hungary: Pretext and Context -- 4 Restoring the Hungarian Historical Constitutional Order with a Coronation in 1867 -- 5 The Privy Council Appeal and British Imperial Policy, 1833-1939 -- 6 Direct Impact on Hungarian Migration Policy of the 1870 Agreement on Citizenship between the United States and Austria-Hungary (1880s-1914) -- 7 Political Systems in Transition and Cultural (In)dependence: The Limits of a Legal Transplant in the Example of the Brazilian's Court of Auditors Birth -- 8 Constitutional Systems of Free European States (1918-1939) -- 9 Local Citizenship in the Croatian-Slavonian Legal Area in the First Yugoslavia (1918-1941): Breakdown of a Concept? -- 10 Nazi Law as Pure Instrument: Natural Law, (Extra-)Legal Terror, and the Neglect of Ideology -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Places.

This book, one of two volumes, is an anthology that analyses, through selected examples, the role played in the development of public law by the pursuit of goals serving modernisation or national ideologies in various countries, cultural spheres, and periods.

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