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020			_a9781788163026 _cRM 169.90 _qhardback
040			_aPPAK _beng _cPPAK _erda
082	0	4	_223 _a340.09
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100	1		_aPirie, Fernanda, _d1964- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aTHE RULE OF LAWS : _bA 4,000-YEAR QUEST TO ORDER THE WORLD / _cFERNANDA PIRIE
264		1	_aLondon : _bProfile Books Ltd , _c2021.
300			_aiv, 570 pages, [16] pages of colored plates : _bcolour photographs ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_aThe laws now enforced throughout the world are almost all modelled on systems developed in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During two hundred years of colonial rule, Europeans exported their laws everywhere they could. But they weren't filling a void: in many places, they displaced traditions that were already ancient when Vasco Da Gama first arrived in India. Even the Romans were inspired by earlier precedents.0Where, then, did it all begin? And what has law been and done over the course of human history? In The Rule of Laws, pioneering anthropologist Fernanda Pirie traces the development of the world's great legal systems - Chinese, Indian, Roman, and Islamic - and the innumerable smaller traditions they inspired. At the heart of the story is a paradox: how did the pronouncements of the powerful became a vital weapon in ordinary people's fight for justice?
650	1	0	_aLaw _xHistory
650	2	0	_aLaw
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