Colonizing Hawai'i : the cultural power of law / Sally Engle Merry.
"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 s...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2000]
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| Series: | Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Language and Terminology
- 1. Introduction
- Pt. 1. Encounters in a Contact Zone: New England Missionaries, Lawyers, and the Appropriation of Anglo-American Law, 1820-1852
- 2. The Process of Legal Transformation
- 3. The First Transition: Religious Law
- 4. The Second Transition: Secular Law
- Pt. 2. Local Practices of Policing and Judging in Hilo, Hawai'i
- 5. The Social History of a Plantation Town
- 6. Judges and Caseloads in Hilo
- 7. Protest and the Law on the Hilo Sugar Plantations
- 8. Sexuality, Marriage, and the Management of the Body
- 9. Conclusions
- App. A. Cases from Hilo District Court
- App. B. Accompanying Tables
- Notes
- References
- Index.