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Eve Darian-Smith

Religion, Race, Rights: Landmarks in the History of Modern Anglo-American Law

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The book highlights the interconnections between three framing concepts in the development of modern western law: religion, race, and rights. The author challenges the assumption that law is an objective, rational and secular enterprise by showing that the rule of law is historically grounded and linked to the particularities of Christian morality, the forces of capitalism dependent upon exploitation of minorities, and specific conceptions of individualism that surfaced with the Reformation in the sixteenth century and rapidly developed in the Enlightenment in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing upon landmark legal decisions and… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84113-729-2
  • EAN: 9781841137292
  • Produktnummer: 4471083
  • Verlag: Hart Pub
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 329 S.
  • Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.0 cm 544 g
  • Gewicht: 544

Über den Autor


Eve Darian-Smith practiced law in Australia before obtaining her MA degree (Harvard) and her PhD degree (Chicago) in cultural anthropology. She has published a number of books and articles including Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe (1999) which won the Law & Society Association Herbert Jacob Book Prize, as well as New Capitalists: Law, Politics and Identity Surrounding Casino Gaming on Native American Land (2003) and Ethnography and Law (2006).

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