Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: "The King is Listening" offers, through the contribution of thirteen original chapters, a sustained analysis of judicial practices and litigation during the first era of French overseas expansion.

The overall goal of this volume is to elaborate a more sophisticated "social history of colonialism" by focusing largely on the eighteenth century, extending roughly from 1700 until the conclusion of the Age of Revolutions in the 1830s. By critically examining legal practices and litigation in the French colonial world, in both its Atlantic and Oceanic extensions, this volume of essays has sought to interrogate the naturalized equation between law and empire, an idea premised on the idea of law as a set of doctrines and codified procedures originating in the metropolis and then transmitted to the colonies. This book advances new approaches and methods in writing a history of the French empire, one which views state authority as more unstable and contested. Voices in the Legal Archives proposes to remedy the under-theorized state of France's first colonial empire, as opposed to its post-1830 imperial expressions empire, which have garnered far more scholarly attention.

This book will appeal to scholars of French history and the comparative history of European empires and colonialism.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2020

ISBN

9781000193855

Edition

Topic

History

Subtopic

World History

Index

History

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “The King is Listening” – Toward a Social and Political History of Legal Pluralism in the Early Modern French Empire
Part I Reading Colonial Legal Records Against the Grain
Part II Between Metropole and Periphery
Part III Chains of Property and Obligation
Part IV Circuits of Power and the Testimony of the Marginal
Part V Divided Sovereignties, Legal Hybridities
List of Contributors
Index