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2 Dec 2019, 8:07 am
What inter-tribal warfare (quickened with the arrival of Europeans), smallpox, malaria, treaties with the U.S. government, the virtual extinction of American buffalo (bison), confinement to reservations, and white settler colonialism generally did to the Crow Indians* as a nomadic, warrior, and hunting tribe is robustly analogous, I suspect, to what “we” will experience as the cumulative effects of climate change on “our way of life” or ways of living… [read post]
18 Sep 2023, 9:25 am by The Murray Law Firm
The woman is in the hospital with what police describe as injuries that are not life threatening. [read post]
3 Oct 2019, 8:39 am by Fahad Bishara
All of these have long formed the “stuff” of Islamic legal studies for over a century now; so far, no surprises.The difficulty, though, is in making this world of pre-colonial lawmaking come to life – and, for the Indian Ocean historian, to see the broader canvas against which its history played out. [read post]
7 Aug 2006, 9:00 am
[JURIST] The sole surviving hostage-taker in the 2004 Beslan school siege [JURIST news archive; BBC backgrounder] will be given a new name to prevent retaliation by other inmates at the island penal colony where he will be imprisoned, a law enforcement source told the Interfax news agency Monday. [read post]
10 Sep 2020, 10:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
It represented one of the last significant intrusions of colonial law into the private sphere of Hong Kong social life, eliminating Chinese customs which had been previously recognised by the colonial legal system’s family law. [read post]
28 Mar 2023, 6:30 am by ernst
This talk looks at Chen’s life and legal work during the early 1950s, retracing how he wielded colonial law as a weapon to chip away at the U.S. embargo and thereby circumscribe its reach. [read post]
25 May 2023, 6:30 am by ernst
  It “examines the Constabulary Force Ordinance enacted by the legislature of the New Zealand Province of New Munster in 1849" for its revelations into the everyday life of the time. [read post]
21 Sep 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
Hodges, Nandini Chatterjee   Registering and Regulating Family Life: The School Thombos in Dutch Sri LankaBente de Leede, Nadeera RupesingheA New Language of Rule: Alwar's Administrative Experiment, c. 1838–58Elizabeth M. [read post]
28 Jul 2016, 9:00 am by Mitra Sharafi
The history of political anti-colonialism and syndicalism in Africa has heretofore neglected the contributions of religion to national meaning making in the last decades of colonial rule, and its secular focus has failed to perceive how religion mediated the costs and benefits of political modernity and national sovereignty, critically underpinning much cultural life that gave shape to various kinds of mass politics at the end of empire. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 1:51 am by Sean Patrick Donlan
Anyway, you know where to find more on the subject.Of course, 'hybridity' has a life of its own. [read post]
26 Apr 2018, 6:30 am by Mitra Sharafi
The Life of Law in Modern India: A Present History of the Matha Court - Janaki Nair2. [read post]
24 Apr 2015, 3:00 pm by Karen Tani
  The difficulty and scope of her effort, as well as her impressive success in uncovering and bringing to life obscure and difficult-to-access records, especially impressed the committee. [read post]
14 Jun 2020, 4:34 pm by Diana S. Kim
Anti-opium reforms were made possible through the pedestrian work of on-site bureaucrats, who constructed official problems relating to opium and delegitimized its economic life. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 2:46 pm by Liz Thornberry
Like many legal historians, I spend a good chunk of my life reading court records—and it’s one my favorite parts of my job. [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 4:00 am by Conor Standish
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31 Oct 2013, 11:47 am by David Walpuck
Life at that time was strictly governed by the church. [read post]
17 May 2015, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Throughout Modernizing Marriage, Cuno examines Egyptian family history in a comparative and transnational context, addressing issues of colonial modernity and colonial knowledge, Islamic law and legal reform, social history, and the history of women and gender. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
On the way it details his ill-fated adventures in colonial Victoria and his rise to prominence in gold-rush Dunedin. [read post]
5 Feb 2015, 12:02 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Charles Lee When the quarrels with the colonies began, he felt sympathy with the Americans, and moved to Virginia in 1773. [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 4:46 pm
Amid a global reckoning on colonialism and cultural supremacy, pressure is growing on the British Museum to return the sculptures to Greece" (WaPo). [read post]