Law and identity in mandate Palestine / Assaf Likhovski.
"One of the major questions facing the world today is the role of law in shaping identity and in balancing tradition with modernity. In an arid corner of the Mediterranean region in the first decades of the twentieth century, Mandate Palestine was confronting these very issues. Assaf Likhovski...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, NC :
University of North Carolina Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Studies in legal history.
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| Online Access: | HeinOnline Legal Classics Library HeinOnline World Constitutions Illustrated |
| Summary: | "One of the major questions facing the world today is the role of law in shaping identity and in balancing tradition with modernity. In an arid corner of the Mediterranean region in the first decades of the twentieth century, Mandate Palestine was confronting these very issues. Assaf Likhovski examines the legal history of Palestine, showing how law and identity interacted in a complex colonial society in which British rulers and Jewish and Arab subjects lived together. Uncovering a rich arsenal of legal distinctions, notions, and doctrines used by lawyers to mediate between different identities, Likhovski provides a comprehensive account of the relationship between law and identity. His analysis suggests a new approach to both the legal history of Mandate Palestine and colonial societies in general."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 312 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807877182 1429453907 9780807877180 9781429453905 |