Rage for order : the British Empire and the origins of international law, 1800-1850

"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 im...

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Auteurs principaux : Benton Lauren A. (Auteur), Ford Lisa (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Rage for order : the British Empire and the origins of international law, 1800-1850 / Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford
Publié : Cambridge, Mass. [etc.] : Harvard University Press , 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (282 p.)
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Documents associés : Autre format: Rage for order
  • P. 1
  • 1 A global empire of law
  • P. 28
  • 2 Controlling despotic dominions
  • P. 56
  • 3 The commissioner's world
  • P. 85
  • 4 The promise of protection
  • P. 148
  • 5 Ordering the oceans
  • P. 148
  • 6 An empire of states
  • P. 180
  • 7 A great disorder