Publications
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Nem teúdas, nem manteúdas
(2020)
This book develops a legal history of colonial women as a methodological approach to studying the women of Paraíba, a captaincy on the northeast coast of Brazil, from the end of the Dutch occupation (1661) to Brazilian ...
A Global History of Ideas in the Language of Law
(2021)
This book argues that the narrowing focus of the global history of ideas on narratives in historical research, philosophy and political theory neglects the fact that the central concepts of the history of political ideas ...
Towards a Democratic Franchise
(2022)
This book examines the process of electoral reform in the Bahamas during the 20th century in the broader context of decolonisation. Beginning with the General Assembly Elections Act of 1919, which reaffirmed a franchise ...
Staatsangehörigkeit und Rassismus
(2021)
When Italy and Germany joined the ‘scramble for Africa’ and established colonies on the continent in the late 19th century, they, like other imperial powers before them, had to deal with the question of how to define the ...
Celebrar lo imposible
(2021)
This book offers a legal-historical examination of the construction of property in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, at the end of the 19th century. The author analyzes the interaction of the civil codification, ...
Esclavos y tierras entre posesión y títulos
(2021)
This book examines the social construction of legal relations between people and things in Brazil during the 19th century through the analysis of court cases discussing dominion and possession over slaves and land. The ...
Los viajes de las ideas sobre la cuestión criminal hacia /desde Argentina
(2024)
This edited volume aims to contribute to the understanding
of the metamorphoses of knowledge on the ‘criminal
question’ as it circulated, in different directions, to
and from the Argentine context between the late ...
Diritto: storia e comparazione
(2018)
"Comparative law and the history of law are traditionally devoted to expanding the context of legal rules and legal institutions. Comparison involves history, as the well-known motto proclaims, but history also involves ...
Entanglements in Legal History
(2014)
"Legal History presents a broad panorama of historical processes that trigger theoretical reflections on legal transfers and legal transplants and on the problem of the reception and assimilation laws and other modes of ...
Normatividades e instituciones eclesiásticas en el virreinato del Perú, siglos XVI–XIX
(2019)
Ecclesiastical institutions and actors were essential for the formation of normative orders in early modern Ibero-America. In a series of seminars, organised by the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Mexico ...