Rage for order : the British Empire and the origins of international law, 1800-1850
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Rage for order : the British Empire and the origins of international law, 1800-1850
Harvard University Press, 2018
- : pbk
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Includes index
Originally published: c2016
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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.
"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."
-Alex Middleton, Reviews in History
"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."
-Jens Bartelson, Australian Historical Studies
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