Rage for Order : : The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800–1850 /

Rage for Order : : The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800–1850 / / Lauren Benton, Lisa Ford.

International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it come from? Rage for Order finds the origins of international law in empires—especially in the British Empire’s sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and use it to order the world in th...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:
Benton, Lauren,
Ford, Lisa ,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]
©2016
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 7 halftones
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. A Global Empire of Law
  • 2. Controlling Despotic Dominions
  • 3. The Commissioner’s World
  • 4. The Promise of Protection
  • 5. Ordering the Oceans
  • 6. An Empire of States
  • 7. A Great Disorder
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

Similar Items