Colonizing Hawai'I

The Cultural Power Of Law

by Sally Engle Merry
language: english
Publisher: Princeton University Press, January of 2000 ‧
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How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? This title reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands.

Colonizing Hawai'I

The Cultural Power Of Law

by Sally Engle Merry

Property Description
ISBN: 9780691009322
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: January of 2000
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 432
Format: Book
Collection: Princeton Studies In Culture/Power/History
Categories: Books in English > History > General History
EAN: 9780691009322