The Law and the Colonial State: Legal Codification versus Practice in a German Colony
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Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930. Hrsg. / Geoff Eley; James Retallack. New York: Berghahn Books, 2004. S. 171-184 10.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The Law and the Colonial State
T2 - Legal Codification versus Practice in a German Colony
AU - Oermann, Nils Ole
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Colonial law has recently become a focus of extensive scholarly attention. Several authors have been concerned with the development of law in German colonies from a jurisdictional as well as a historical perspective.¹ A common methodological element of such studies is that they try to identify the significance of colonial law for German or international legal history by analyzing legal files and treaties from the perspective of what was happening at home in the Reich, even though they claim to describe how Germany’s administration and legal systems functioned in the colonies.² This chapter has a different emphasis and a broader...
AB - Colonial law has recently become a focus of extensive scholarly attention. Several authors have been concerned with the development of law in German colonies from a jurisdictional as well as a historical perspective.¹ A common methodological element of such studies is that they try to identify the significance of colonial law for German or international legal history by analyzing legal files and treaties from the perspective of what was happening at home in the Reich, even though they claim to describe how Germany’s administration and legal systems functioned in the colonies.² This chapter has a different emphasis and a broader...
KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication
KW - Philosophy
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-1-57181-223-0
SN - 978-1-57181-687-0
SP - 171
EP - 184
BT - Wilhelminism and Its Legacies
A2 - Eley, Geoff
A2 - Retallack, James
PB - Berghahn Books
CY - New York
ER -