1st Edition
The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900
1 The uses of justice in global perspective, 1600–1900
Manon van der Heijden and Griet Vermeesch
2 The Sinitic justice system, past and present – in a global perspective
Philip C. C. Huang
3 Threads of the legal web: Dutch law and everyday colonialism in eighteenth-century Asia
Alicia Schrikker and Dries Lyna
4 Facing the law in eighteenth-century Galle
Nadeera Rupesinghe
5 Legal pluralism in the cities of the early modern Kingdom of Poland: the jurisdictional conflicts and uses of justice by Armenian merchants
Alexandr Osipian
6 The use and abuse of legal services in nineteenth-century Russia
Elizaveta Blagodeteleva
7 Skipping court: civil disputes in sixteenth-century Rouen
Katherine Godwin
8 In hope of agreement: norm and practice in the use of institutes for dispute settlement in late-seventeenth-century Leiden
Aries van Meeteren and Griet Vermeesch
9 Justice and the confines of the law in early modern Spain
Tomás A. Mantecón
10 Lo extrajudicial: between court and community in the Spanish empire
Bianca Premo
11 Legal pluralism, hybridization and the uses of everyday criminal law in Quebec, 1760–1867
Donald Fyson
Index
Biography
Griet Vermeesch is a fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, in Belgium. Her research relates to urban history and to access to justice in the Low Countries during the early modern period.
Manon van der Heijden is Professor of Urban History at Leiden University and a member of the Academia Europaea. She is author of Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland (2016).
Jaco Zuijderduijn is Associate Professor at the Department of Economic History at Lund University, Sweden. His main research interest is the development of economic exchange and conflict resolution. He previously published Medieval Capital Markets: Markets for Renten, State Formation and Private Investment in Holland (1300–1550).
