Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850

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

Author: Lauren Benton, Lisa Ford
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 09/01/2018
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780674986855

About the Author
Benton, Lauren: - Lauren Benton is Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Professor of History and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University.Ford, Lisa: - Lisa Ford is the author of the prizewinning Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836 and coauthor of Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850. She is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales.