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Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law

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Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law - Merry, Sally Engle
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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 seductive idea of civilization. Sally Engle Merry 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 ...

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Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law 2000, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691009322

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