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Book SynopsisThe driving force of the dynamic development of world legal history in the past few centuries, with the dominance of the West, was clearly the demands of modernisation – transforming existing reality into what is seen as modern. The need for modernisation, determining the development of modern law, however, clashed with the need to preserve cultural identity rooted in national traditions. With selected examples of different legal institutions, countries and periods, the authors of the essays in the two volumes Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism: Studies in Comparative Legal History, vol. I: Private Law and Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism: Studies in Comparative Legal History, vol. II: Public Law seek to explain the nature of this problem. Contributors are Judit Beke-Martos, Jiří Brňovják, Marjorie Carvalho de Souza, Michał Gałędek, Imre Képessy, Ivan Kosnica, Simon Lavis, Maja Maciejewska-Szałas, Tadeusz Maciejewski, Thomas Mohr, Balázs Pálvölgyi, and Marek Starý.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors 1 Residential Right in the Course of Time: Changes in the Legal Institution of the Inkolat in the Bohemian Crown Lands Jiří BrňovjákandMarek Starý 2 Legal Transfers and National Traditions: Patterns of Modernization of the Administration in Polish Territories at the Turn of the 19th Century Michał Gałędek 3 National Modernization through the Constitutional Revolution of 1848 in Hungary: Pretext and Context Imre Képessy 4 Restoring the Hungarian Historical Constitutional Order with a Coronation in 1867 Judit Beke-Martos 5 The Privy Council Appeal and British Imperial Policy, 1833–1939 Thomas Mohr 6 Direct Impact on Hungarian Migration Policy of the 1870 Agreement on Citizenship between the United States and Austria-Hungary (1880s–1914) Balázs Pálvölgyi 7 Political Systems in Transition and Cultural (In)dependence: The Limits of a Legal Transplant in the Example of the Brazilian’s Court of Auditors Birth Marjorie Carvalho de Souza 8 Constitutional Systems of Free European States (1918–1939) Tadeusz Maciejewski and Maja Maciejewska-Szałas 9 Local Citizenship in the Croatian-Slavonian Legal Area in the First Yugoslavia (1918–1941): Breakdown of a Concept? Ivan Kosnica 10 Nazi Law as Pure Instrument: Natural Law, (Extra-)Legal Terror, and the Neglect of Ideology Simon Lavis Index
