SOC102H1 Chapter Notes -Gendercide, Geneva Conventions, Combat Stress Reaction
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Every region nation or empire is defined by political and legal jurisdiction: who rules it and under what body of laws. Ex: britain was a set of dominions, colonies, and protectorates loosely ruled from london. Within each of these dominions, colonies and protectorates, ppl were ruled by a local version of british common law, managed by local judges and magistrates. Empires have taken a range of diff approaches in how they managed their subjects. The roman empire famously decided to tax its colonies but not to meddle in their cultural or religious affairs; this wise decision contributed to a relatively long period of peace. In most modern world national societies are political states and most states are national societies. Regions are often just combinations of political/jurisdictional units. Sometimes political units have banded together to form an alliance against ontario or quebec or against the federal gov as we have seen in the maritimes or the prairie provinces.
