| #655834 in Books | Princeton University Press | 1999-12-21 | 2000-01-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.98 x6.00l,1.40 | File type: PDF | 432 pages | ||9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Valuable study and good read|By jackeroo|This book is a valuable study of the colonization of Hawai`i and the role of "law" in the islands' cultural transformation. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in a critical understanding of Hawai`i's social, economic and politial dynamics. I particularly benefited from the insights on religion, sexuality and women. Sal||Winner of the 2002 Williard Hurst Prize in Legal History|From the Inside Flap||"This is an important study which details a crucial (and often ignored) chapter in American legal history. It stands to make an importan
How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seductive idea of civilization. Sally Engle Merry reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capita...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Colonizing Hawai'I | Sally Engle Merry. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
