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This text explains the rudiments of an inter-institutional theory of law, a theory which finds legality in the interaction between legal institutions, whose legality we characterize in terms of the kinds of norms they use rather than their content or system-membership

"Subjects and Sojourners explores how French colonial rule in Indochina extended Indochina's colonial society into France. Perhaps two hundred thousand Indochinese sojourned in France between conquest in the 1850s and decolonization a century later. They came from all parts of colonial society, from ruling monarchs to the most marginal laborers. In France, they studied, labored, fought, and lived in contexts that, although still within the empire, remained profoundly different from their places of origin. Their French sojourns were socially, culturally, and politically transformative. And when these sojourners returned to Indochina, virtually all parts of colonial society bore traces of their experiences abroad. Subjects and Sojourners shows, in short, that Indochina did not simply receive and refashion 'France' in the colony: they went and lived it for themselves"--

A church between the Nguyẽ̂n and the French -- A colonial church divided -- The birth of a national church -- Vietnamese Catholic tradition on trial -- A national church experienced -- The culture and politics of Vietnamese Catholic nationalism -- A national church in revolution and war -- Epilogue : a national church divided