TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benton,Lauren A.
AU  - Ford,Lisa
TI  - Rage for order: the British Empire and the origins of international law, 1800-1850 
SN  - 9780674972780
AV  - KD5020 .B46 2016eb
U1  - 342/.11241 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Law
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Law reform
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - International law
KW  - Droit
KW  - Réforme
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Histoire constitutionnelle
KW  - Droit international
KW  - LAW
KW  - Constitutional
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Public
KW  - LAW / International
KW  - British colonies
KW  - fast
KW  - Kolonie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Internationales Recht
KW  - Verfassung
KW  - Rechtsreform
KW  - Imperialismus
KW  - Jurisprudence & general issues
KW  - thema
KW  - Legal history
KW  - British Empire
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Großbritannien
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-274) and index; A global empire of law -- Controlling despotic dominions -- The commissioner's world -- The promise of protection -- Ordering the oceans -- An empire of states -- A great disorder; Available to Stanford Law School Community
N2  - "Rage for Order surveys the sprawling, often frenetic attempt to redesign law in the British Empire. Across the world in the early nineteenth century, colonial officials, indigenous subjects, settlers, convicts, sailors, soldiers, and slaves participated in contests that shaped a new British imperial constitution. Contemporaries imagined that law would provide a blueprint for the empire and for global order. Within turbulent British colonies, legal reform targeted petty despots and augmented the power of the crown to intervene in the administration of justice. At the edges of empire, British campaigns to police slave trading and piracy linked imperial interests to emerging world regions and conjured new sovereignties. Rage for Order breaks new ground in the history of international law by looking beyond the treatises of jurists and instead tracing vernacular constitutional politics across the globe--in new crown colonies such as Ceylon and Trinidad, expanding settler colonies such as New South Wales and Upper Canada, established plantation colonies in the West Indies and Indian Ocean, and regions not under direct British control, from the South Atlantic to the eastern Mediterranean to the Pacific islands. By uncovering the lost history of a global empire of law, Benton and Ford reveal the way imperial structures continue to influence our understandings of world order and international law."--
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