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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| Fformat: | Licensed eBooks |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
[2000]
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| Cyfres: | Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv173dzts |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- A note on language and terminology
- Part 1: Encounters in a contact zone : New England missionaries, lawyers, and the appropriation of Ango-American law, 1820-1852. The process of legal transformation ; The first transition : religious law ; The second transition : secular law
- Part 2: Local practices of policing and judging in Hilo, Hawai'i. The social history of a planation town ; Judges and caseloads in Hilo ; Protest and the law on the Hilo Sugar Planation ; Sexuality, marriage, and the management of the body
- Conclusion
- Appendixes. A. Cases from Hilo District Court ; B. Accompanying tables.
- A note on language and terminology
- Part 1: Encounters in a contact zone : New England missionaries, lawyers, and the appropriation of Anglo-American law, 1820-1852. The process of legal transformation ; The first transition : religious law ; The second transition : secular law
- Part 2: Local practices of policing and judging in Hilo, Hawai'i. The social history of a planation town ; Judges and caseloads in Hilo ; Protest and the law on the Hilo Sugar Plantation ; Sexuality, marriage, and the management of the body
- Conclusion
- Appendices. A. Cases from Hilo District Court ; B. Accompanying tables.