Fanti Customary Laws
Author : John Mensah Sarbah
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Customary law
ISBN :
Author : John Mensah Sarbah
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Customary law
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Author : Oyekan Owomoyela
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803286047
African literatures, says volume editor Oyekan Owomoyela, "testify to the great and continuing impact of the colonizing project on the African universe." African writers must struggle constantly to define for themselves and other just what "Africa" is and who they are in a continent constructed as a geographic and cultural entity largely by Europeans. This study reflects the legacy of colonialism by devoting nine of its thirteen chapters to literature in "Europhone" languages—English, French, and Portuguese. Foremost among the Anglophone writers discussed are Nigerians Amos Tutuola, Chinua Achebe, and Wole Soyinka. Writers from East Africa are also represented, as are those from South Africa. Contributors for this section include Jonathan A. Peters, Arlene A. Elder, John F. Povey, Thomas Knipp, and J. Ndukaku Amankulor. In African Francophone literature, we see both writers inspired by the French assimilationist system and those influenced by Negritude, the African-culture affirmation movement. Contributors here include Servanne Woodward, Edris Makward, and Alain Ricard. African literature in Portuguese, reflecting the nature of one of the most oppressive colonizing projects in Africa, is treated by Russell G. Hamilton. Robert Cancel discusses African-language literatures, while Oyekan Owomoyela treats the question of the language of African literatures. Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory Fido focus on the special problems of African women writers, while Hans M. Zell deals with the broader issues of publishing—censorship, resources, and organization.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 1904
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Sampson Low
Publisher :
Page : 1450 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 1906
Category : English imprints
ISBN :
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Author : Hans Kelsen
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1584779861
The influential jurist Hans Kelsen [1881-1973] here applies his concept of the distinction between society and nature. He shows how primitive man developed his interpretation of nature, through the laws of retribution and of causality, to a modern concept of nature and society. He holds that the gradual emancipation of the law of causality from the principle of retribution is "the emancipation from a social interpretation of nature. The process shows a relation between social and natural science which is very important from the point of view of intellectual history." (Introduction p. viii) Extensively annotated. Kelsen is known for his theory of pure positive law, as postulated in General Theory of Law and State, which is also available in a reprint edition from The Lawbook Exchange.
Author : Inge Van Hulle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 019886986X
This book provides an in-depth contextual analysis of the role of international law in the growth of British presence in West Africa during the early- and mid-nineteenth century. It highlights this period as an important experimentation phase which saw the genesis of the treaties that have now become associated with the Scramble for Africa.
Author : Frederick Pollock
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Classification
ISBN :
Author : Werner F. Menski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139452711
Now in its second edition, this textbook presents a critical rethinking of the study of comparative law and legal theory in a globalising world, and proposes an alternative model. It highlights the inadequacies of current Western theoretical approaches in comparative law, international law, legal theory and jurisprudence, especially for studying Asian and African laws, arguing that they are too parochial and eurocentric to meet global challenges. Menski argues for combining modern natural law theories with positivist and socio-legal traditions, building an interactive, triangular concept of legal pluralism. Advocated as the fourth major approach to legal theory, this model is applied in analysing the historical and conceptual development of Hindu law, Muslim law, African laws and Chinese law.
Author : John Mensah Sarbah
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Law, Fanti
ISBN : 9780598980953