01655nam a2200241 i 4500 20221227103551.0 221227s2021 -ukfo g w 001 0 eng d 9781788163026 RM 169.90 hardback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 340.09 340.09 PIR G Pirie, Fernanda, 1964- author. THE RULE OF LAWS : A 4,000-YEAR QUEST TO ORDER THE WORLD / FERNANDA PIRIE London : Profile Books Ltd , 2021. iv, 570 pages, [16] pages of colored plates : colour photographs ; 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier 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. Even the Romans were inspired by earlier precedents.0Where, 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. At the heart of the story is a paradox: how did the pronouncements of the powerful became a vital weapon in ordinary people's fight for justice? Law History Law ddc B 190754 190754 0 0 PPAK G 2023-01-29 0 340.09 PIR A01768078 2023-01-29 00:00:00 B