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Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition demonstrates how Roman civil law functioned as an instrument of empire by tracking its application to the challenges of governing diverse and distant people.

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"A set of stimulating thought-pieces on five distinct but connected preoccupations concerning ancient civil and international law, legal culture, and later readings of the Roman legal tradition. . . . As an attempt to break free of the conventional parameters of discourse on law in antiquity, the book has much to recommend it." * American Historical Review *

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1. Citizen and Alien before the Law
Chapter 2. Law's Empire
Chapter 3. Empire and the Laws of War
Chapter 4. Sovereignty and Solipsism in Democratic Empires
Chapter 5. Domesticating Domination
Appendix. Work-arounds in Roman Law: The Fiction and Its Kin
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/10/2011
      ISBN13: 9780812243543, 978-0812243543
      ISBN10: 0812243544

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition demonstrates how Roman civil law functioned as an instrument of empire by tracking its application to the challenges of governing diverse and distant people.

      Trade Review
      "A set of stimulating thought-pieces on five distinct but connected preoccupations concerning ancient civil and international law, legal culture, and later readings of the Roman legal tradition. . . . As an attempt to break free of the conventional parameters of discourse on law in antiquity, the book has much to recommend it." * American Historical Review *

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Chapter 1. Citizen and Alien before the Law
      Chapter 2. Law's Empire
      Chapter 3. Empire and the Laws of War
      Chapter 4. Sovereignty and Solipsism in Democratic Empires
      Chapter 5. Domesticating Domination
      Appendix. Work-arounds in Roman Law: The Fiction and Its Kin
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index
      Acknowledgments

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