{"product_id":"imperial-justice-bonny-ibhawoh-9780199664849","title":"Imperial Justice: Africans in Empire's Court","description":"\u003cem\u003eImperial Justice\u003c\/em\u003e explores the imperial control of judicial governance and the adjudication of colonial difference in British Africa. Focusing on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the colonial regional Appeal Courts for West Africa and East Africa, it examines how judicial\u003cbr\u003ediscourses of native difference and imperial universalism in local disputes influenced practices of power in colonial settings and shaped an evolving jurisprudence of Empire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArguing that the Imperial Appeal Courts were key sites where colonial legal modernity was fashioned, the book examines the tensions that permeated the colonial legal system such as the difficulty of upholding basic standards of British justice while at the same time allowing for local customary\u003cbr\u003edivergence which was thought essential to achieving that justice. The modernizing mission of British justice could only truly be achieved through recognition of local exceptionality and difference. Natives who appealed to the Courts of Empire were entitled to the same standards of justice as their\u003cbr\u003e'civilized' colonists, yet the boundaries of racial, ethnic, and cultural difference somehow had to be recognized and maintained in the adjudicatory process. Meeting these divergent goals required flexibility in colonial law-making as well as in the administration of justice. In the paradox of\u003cbr\u003eintegration and differentiation, imperial power and local cultures were not always in conflict but were sometimes complementary and mutually reinforcing. \u003cbr\u003eThe book draws attention not only to the role of Imperial Appeal Courts in the colonies but also to the reciprocal place of colonized peoples in shaping the processes and outcomes of imperial justice. A valuable addition to British colonial literature, this book places Africa in a central role, and\u003cbr\u003eexamines the role of the African colonies in the shaping of British Imperial jurisprudence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bonny Ibhawoh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199664846\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199664849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Bonny Ibhawoh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47001093079295,"sku":"9780199664849","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_88a43568-f526-4ef0-a236-ac615857adb9.jpg?v=1751600044","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imperial-justice-bonny-ibhawoh-9780199664849","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}