Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition.
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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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