Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law by Merry, Sally Engle - 1999

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Princeton University Press, 2000. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

pb. Fair. Obviously worn, but no text pages missing. May have highlighting and marginalia, but markings do not interfere with readability. Textbooks do not have accompanying CDs or access codes. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC.

Princeton. 1999. Princeton University Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0691009325. Winner of 2002 Williard Hurst Prize in legal history. 364 pages. paperback. . keywords: Hawaii History Colonization Law. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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 islands. The new law brought novel systems of courts, prisons, and conceptions of discipline and dramatically changed the marriage patterns, work lives, and sexual conduct of the indigenous people of Hawai'i. inventory #34985 ISBN:… Read More

Princeton University Press , pp. 390, Maps, Index. Papeback. New.

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Princeton University Press, 1999-12-21. Paperback. Good. Textbook, May Have Highlights, Notes and/or Underlining, BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE, NO CD, Ships with Emailed Tracking

Paperback / softback. New. 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.

Princeton Univ Pr, 1999. Paperback. New. 371 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.

Princeton University Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor