European Expansion and Law: The Encounter of European and Indigenous Law in the 19th- And 2th-Century Africa and Asia

by W.J. Mommsen

The history of European expansion overseas also includes the history of the expansion of concepts and principles of European law into the non-European world. The values and ideas it expressed have, to this day, deeply influenced indigenous societies and governments. At the same time indigenous concepts of law were 'discovered' and codified by European scholars. The outcome of this was a complex and intense interaction between European and local concepts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0854967621
• ISBN13: 9780854967629
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"