Empire and Legal Thought: Ideas and Institutions from Antiquity to Modernity

by Edward Cavanagh

Emphatic of the importance of legal thought to the rise and fall of empires, this book highlights the centrality of empires to the development of legal thought.

Comprehension of the development of legal thought over time is necessary for any historical, philosophical, practical, or theoretical enquiry into the subject today, it is argued here. When seen against the background of broad geopolitical, diplomatic, administrative, intellectual,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004430989
• ISBN13: 9789004430983
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
• Length: 634 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"