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The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies (Law and Society Series) by Foster, Hamar; Berger, Benjamin L.; Buck, A.R is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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"In the late nineteenth century, the English legal historians Frederick Pollock and F.W. Maitland coined the phase "the grand experiment" to describe the spread of English law throughout the British Empire. For them, this was an unequivocally positive process that would uplift settler societies. The work of recent legal historians has alerted us to more complex impact English law had on the peoples, both settler and indigenous, of those colonial societies. This '"new colonial legal history" has
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- Author
- Foster, Hamar; Berger, Benjamin L.; Buck, A.R
- Publisher
- Published by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by UBC Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780774814928
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Law, Pre Confederation (To 1867)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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