History and Power in the Study of Law

Pt. 1.Resisting and consolidating state-level legal systems:The symbolic vocabulary of public executions /Anton Blok --Law and social change in nineteenth-century Norway /Vilhelm Aubert --A redistributive model for analyzing government mediation and law in family, community, and industry in a New England industrial city /June Nash --Constitution-making in Islamic Iran: the impact of theocracy on the legal order of a nation-state /Said Amir Arjomand --pt. 2.Exporting and extending legal orders:Law and the colonial state in India /Bernard S. Cohn --Contours of change: agrarian law in colonial Uganda, 1895-1962 /Joan Vincent --Thinking about "interests": legislative process in the European community /Francis G. Snyder --pt. 3.Receiving and rejecting national legal processes:The impact of second republic labor reforms in Spain /George A. Collier --Entrepreneurs and the law: self-employed Surinamese in Amsterdam /Jeremy Boissevain and Hanneke Grotenbreg --Interpreting American litigiousness /Carol J. Greenhouse --pt. 4.Constructing and shaping law:History and the redefinition of custom on Kilimanjaro /Sally Falk Moore --Islamic "case law" and the logic of consequence /Lawrence Rosen --The crown, the colonists, and the course of Zapotec village law /Laura Nader --The "invention" of early legal ideas: Sir Henry Maine and the perpetual tutelage of women /June Starr.