LEADER 03706nam 22006135 450 001 9910136676103321 005 20240102235734.0 010 $a9780674972803 010 $a0674972805 010 $a9780674972780 010 $a0674972783 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674972780 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4717129 035 $a(DE-B1597)479790 035 $a(OCoLC)984688057 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674972780 035 $a(PPN)199444862 035 $a(CKB)3710000000907441 035 $a(Perlego)3119831 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000907441 100 $a20170310d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aRage for Order $eThe British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800?1850 /$fLauren Benton, Lisa Ford 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cHarvard University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (289 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9780674986855 311 08$a0674986857 311 08$a9780674737464 311 08$a0674737466 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$t1. A Global Empire of Law --$t2. Controlling Despotic Dominions --$t3. The Commissioner?s World --$t4. The Promise of Protection --$t5. Ordering the Oceans --$t6. An Empire of States --$t7. A Great Disorder --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aInternational 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. 606 $aLaw$zGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLaw reform$zGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aConstitutional history$zGreat Britain$xColonies 606 $aInternational law$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aLaw$xColonies$xHistory 615 0$aLaw reform$xColonies$xHistory 615 0$aConstitutional history$xColonies. 615 0$aInternational law$xHistory 676 $a342/.11241 700 $aBenton$b Lauren A.$f1956-$088948 701 $aFord$b Lisa$0781803 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136676103321 996 $aRage for order$91733772 997 $aUNINA