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  • The Rule of Laws

  • How 4,000 Years of Law Shaped the World as We Know It
  • By: Fernanda Pirie
  • Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
  • Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins

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The Rule of Laws

By: Fernanda Pirie
Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
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The laws now enforced throughout the world are almost all modelled on systems developed in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. During 200 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.

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. 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?

©2022 Fernanda Pirie (P)2022 Audible, Ltd
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  • Categories: History
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