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One of the major questions facing the world today is the role of law in shaping identity and in balancing tradition with modernity. In an arid corner of the Mediterranean region in the first decades of the twentieth century, Mandate Palestine was confronting these very issues. Assaf Likhovski examines the legal history of Palestine, showing how law and identity interacted in a complex colonial society in which British rulers and Jewish and Arab subjects lived together. Law in Mandate Palestine was not merely an instrument of power or a method of solving individual disputes, says Likhov No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)349.5694Social sciences Law By Jurisdiction Asia Middle East The Levant IsraelLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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