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Mining law, Colonial.

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Navigating Pluralities marks a break in understanding the history of Roman-Dutch law in Sri Lanka. Methodologically, it challenges socio-legal studies that concentrate on major jurisdictional conflicts alone, emphasizing the lived experience of everyday practices of judicial forums. It uncovers the navigation of plural practices in the Landraad, a judicial forum set up by the Dutch East India Company in seventeenth-century Sri Lanka. A choice of laws came into play in that forum, that choice being significant at varying degrees for different areas of the law such as evidence, inheritance, land, and marriage law. While there was inevitable conflict, the local normative order was as much a social fact for the early colonial rulers as Roman-Dutch law. This is contrary to the received wisdom of the ages that Roman-Dutch law was imposed on the Sinhalese of the maritime provinces under Dutch control. When translated into everyday lives, such adoption of plural practices could rebound on coloniser and colonised in unexpected ways, revealing the complexities of colonial law in practice.

Law --- Sociological jurisprudence --- History --- Sri Lanka --- Dutch East India Company, VOC, Roman-Dutch Law, Colonial Law, History of Sri Lanka, Legal Pluralism. --- Sri Lanka. --- koloniale geschiedenis ; Nederland. --- recht ; geschiedenis.

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“This volume makes a compelling case for the powerful influence of key individuals acting on behalf the US and British governments on Kenyatta’s political evolution. Addressing the long-neglected theme of the specific process by which a neo-colonial regime succeeded colonial rule, this is an invaluable contribution to the fields of Kenyan and modern African history.” –Robert Maxon, Professor of History, West Virginia University, USA The successor to Kenyatta and Britain: An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963, this book completes the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta by examining the mechanisms of installing a neo-colonial regime in Kenya, and how such regimes were duplicated elsewhere in Africa. It analyzes the nature and extent of the collaboration between Kenyatta, Britain and Western intelligence services to install and protect his government in Kenya—a collaboration which is linked to some of Kenya's most intractable political, social and economic problems. Drawing heavily on primary sources, it examines the legacy of Kenyatta's regime, and how this legacy is felt in Kenya today.

Colonies --- Law and legislation. --- Colonial law --- Law, Colonial --- Law --- Africa, Sub-Saharan-History. --- Imperialism. --- Great Britain-History. --- Africa-Politics and government. --- History of Sub-Saharan Africa. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- African Politics. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Africa, Sub-Saharan—History. --- Great Britain—History. --- Africa—Politics and government.

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Colonies --- Administration. --- Japan --- Politics and government --- Administration --- History --- J4804 --- J4810.70 --- J4209 --- Japan: International politics and law -- colonial conditions, organization and administration --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- racial and ethnic -- emigrants