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A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries....

A World at Sea sharpens and expands our understanding of how the maritime world contributed to global transformations in the early modern world, from inventing knowledge-making practices to pioneering new ways of organizing labor to legal experiments that spanned land and sea.

This book looks at how firms in four sectors of the U.S. economy-textiles, banking, retailing, and business services-are using, or failing to use, technological, organizational, and training changes to respond to the new economic world.

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Invisible Factories analyzes the role of the informal economy in national development and weighs alternative claims about its impact on industrial development. Detailed case studies of the electronics and shoe industries in Spain demonstrate the restructuring process. Benton examines the transformation of ideas about work and gender, the shifting lines of conflict between workers and employers, and growing tensions between national and regiona...

Invisible Factories analyzes the role of the informal economy in national development and weighs alternative claims about its impact on industrial development. Detailed case studies of the electronics and shoe industries in Spain demonstrate the restructuring process. Benton examines the transformation of ideas about work and gender, the shifting lines of conflict between workers and employers, and growing tensions between national and regiona...

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 question...

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Offers both legal scholars and historians a much-needed framework for analysing the complex and fluid legal politics of empires.

Argues that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international legal order.

Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford find the origins of international law in empires, especially in the British Empire's sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and reorder the world. These attempts touched on all the issues of the early nineteenth century, from slavery to revolution, and changed the way we think about the empire's legacy.

Throughout, the authors' theoretical observations serve not only to unify material from diverse sources but to map out directions for further research.

Argues that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international legal order.

A Search for Sovereignty examines how European imperial powers imagined imperial space, constructing sovereignty in ways that merged geographic discourse with law.

This book examines how European imperial powers imagined imperial space, constructing sovereignty in ways that merged geographic discourse with law.