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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Benton, Lauren A., 1956- (Author), Ford, Lisa, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Law > Colonies > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Law reform > Colonies > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Constitutional history > Great Britain > Colonies.
International law > History > 19th century.
Droit > Réforme > Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Histoire constitutionnelle > Grande-Bretagne > Colonies.
Droit international > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
LAW / International
Constitutional history > British colonies
International law
Law > British colonies
Kolonie
Internationales Recht
Verfassung
Rechtsreform
Imperialismus
Jurisprudence & general issues.
Legal history.
British Empire.
International law.
Law.
Großbritannien
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A global empire of law
  • Controlling despotic dominions
  • The commissioner's world
  • The promise of protection
  • Ordering the oceans
  • An empire of states
  • A great disorder.

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