Rage for Order (eBook)

The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850

Lauren Benton, Lisa Ford (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
288 Seiten
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-97280-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 the early part of that century."e;Rage for Order is a book of exceptional range and insight. Its successes are numerous. At a time when questions of law and legalism are attracting more and more attention from historians of 19th-century Britain and its empire, but still tend to be considered within very specific contexts, its sweep and ambition are particularly welcome...Rage for Order is a book that deserves to have major implications both for international legal history, and for the history of modern imperialism."e;-Alex Middleton, Reviews in History"e;Rage for Order offers a fresh account of nineteenth-century global order that takes us beyond worn liberal and post-colonial narratives into a new and more adventurous terrain."e;-Jens Bartelson, Australian Historical Studies

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.10.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-674-97280-5 / 0674972805
• ISBN-13: 978-0-674-97280-3 / 9780674972803