03706nam 22006135 450 991013667610332120240102235734.0978067497280306749728059780674972780067497278310.4159/9780674972780(MiAaPQ)EBC4717129(DE-B1597)479790(OCoLC)984688057(DE-B1597)9780674972780(PPN)199444862(CKB)3710000000907441(Perlego)3119831(EXLCZ)99371000000090744120170310d2017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierRage for Order The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800–1850 /Lauren Benton, Lisa FordCambridge, MA :Harvard University Press,[2017]©20161 online resource (289 pages)Includes index.9780674986855 0674986857 9780674737464 0674737466 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 --IndexInternational 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.LawGreat BritainColoniesHistory19th centuryLaw reformGreat BritainColoniesHistory19th centuryConstitutional historyGreat BritainColoniesInternational lawHistory19th centuryLawColoniesHistoryLaw reformColoniesHistoryConstitutional historyColonies.International lawHistory342/.11241Benton Lauren A.1956-88948Ford Lisa781803DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910136676103321Rage for order1733772UNINA