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Rage for Order - The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850 (Hardcover)
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Rage for Order - The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850 (Hardcover)
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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. Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford uncover the lost history
of Britain's global empire of law in colonial conflicts and
bureaucratic dispatches rather than legal treatises and case law.
Tracing constitutional politics around the world, Rage for Order
shows that attempts to refashion the British imperial constitution
touched on all the controversial issues of the day, from slavery to
revolution. Scandals in turbulent colonies targeted petty despots
and augmented the power of the Crown to intervene in the
administration of justice. Campaigns to police piracy and slave
trading linked British interests to the stability of politically
fragmented regions. Dull bureaucrats dominated legal reform, but
they did not act in isolation. Indigenous peoples, slaves,
convicts, merchants, and sailors all scrambled to play a part in
reordering the empire and the world beyond it. Yet, through it all,
legal reform focused on promoting order, not advancing human rights
or charting liberalism. Rage for Order maps a formative phase in
world history when imperial, not international, law anchored
visions of global order. This sweeping story changes the way we
think about the legacy of the British Empire and the meaning of
international law today.
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