18/07/2024
Title from Hachette India…. New Release...
The Rule of Laws: A 4000-year Quest to Order the World
by Fernanda Pirie (Author) 9781788163033 Extent, 576pages
B-PB 2022 PROFILE – hachette India
About The Book
The laws now enforced throughout the world are almost all modelled on systems developed in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
During two hundred years of colonial rule, Europeans exported their laws everywhere they could. But they weren't filling a void: in many places,
they displaced traditions that were already ancient when Vasco Da Gama first arrived in India.
Where, then, did it all begin? And what has law been and done over the course of human history?
In The Rule of Laws, pioneering anthropologist Fernanda Pirie traces the development of the
world's great legal systems - Chinese, Indian, Roman, and Islamic - and the innumerable smaller traditions they inspired.
'A fascinating, comprehensive study that forces us to think again about what law is, and why it matters ...
For those who want to understand why human society has emerged as it has, this is essential reading' Rana Mitter, author of China's Good War
About the Author
Fernanda Pirie is professor of the anthropology of law at the University of Oxford.
She is the author of The Anthropology of Law and has conducted fieldwork in the mountains of Ladakh and the grasslands of eastern Tibet.
She previously spent almost a decade practicing as a barrister at the London bar. She lives in Oxford, UK.
