Colonizing Hawai'i : the cultural power of law /

How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seducti...

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Autor principal: Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-2020
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press [2000]
Colección:Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
Acceso en línea:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv173dzts