Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ONE Legal Regimes and Colonial Cultures -- INSTITUTIONAL WORLD HISTORY -- LEGAL PLURALISM -- JURISDICTIONAL AND CULTURAL BOUNDARIES -- CULTURAL AND LEGAL INTERMEDIARIES -- LAW AND PROPERTY, LAW AS PROPERTY -- CULTURE/STRUCTURE -- CONCLUSION -- TWO Law in Diaspora -- JURISDICTIONAL COMPLEXITIES IN IBERIAN LAW -- LAW IN THE PORTUGUESE TRADING-POST EMPIRE -- LEGAL PLURALISM IN AFRICA -- MARRONAGE AS A LEGAL STATUS -- BARBAROUS RAIDS, CIVILIZED RANSOM -- AN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL REGIME -- THREE Order out of Trouble -- NEW JURISDICTIONAL PUZZLES FOR SPANIARDS -- CHURCH, CROWN, AND INDIANS IN NORTHERN NEW SPAIN -- ISLAMIC JUSTICE, OTTOMAN STRATEGIES -- HINDUS AS LEGAL SUBJECTS IN GOA -- ''CIVILIZATIONS'' AND CONFLICTS IN COMMON -- FOUR A Place for the State -- LEGAL POLICY AND JURISDICTIONAL COMPLEXITY IN BRITISH INDIA -- QADI JUSTICE -- STATE HEGEMONY -- THE LEGAL LIMITS OF ''ASSIMILATION'' -- CONCLUSION -- FIVE Subjects and Witnesses -- EUROPEAN LAW AND THE KHOI AS LEGAL SUBJECTS -- DEFINING ''CREDIBLE WITNESSES'' -- ABORIGINES AS LEGAL SUBJECTS IN NEW SOUTH WALES -- THE ''RIGHT TO STEAL WHAT THEY THOUGHT PROPER'' -- CONCLUSION -- SIX Constructing Sovereignty -- LAW AND SPANISH AMERICAN STATES -- LAW AND "LAWLESSNESS" IN THE BANDA ORIENTAL -- LAW CROSSING BORDERS -- A "COUNTRY CLAIMING TO BE CIVILIZED" -- LEGAL REFORMS -- INFORMAL EMPIRE AND EXTRATERRITORIALITY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT -- SEVEN Culture and the Rule(s) of Law -- Bibliography -- PRINCIPAL ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS -- SECONDARY AND PUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES -- Index.