{"product_id":"rage-for-order-the-british-empire-and-the-origins-of-international-law-1800-1850-9780674986855","title":"Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850","description":"\u003cp\u003eInternational law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it come from? \u003ci\u003eRage for Order\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRage for Order \u003c\/i\u003eis 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...\u003ci\u003eRage for Order \u003c\/i\u003eis a book that deserves to have major implications both for international legal history, and for the history of modern imperialism.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Alex Middleton, \u003ci\u003eReviews in History\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRage for Order\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Jens Bartelson, \u003ci\u003eAustralian Historical Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBenton, Lauren:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Lauren Benton is Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Professor of History and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFord, Lisa:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Lisa Ford is the author of the prizewinning \u003ci\u003eSettler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eRage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850\u003c\/i\u003e. She is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327004315922,"sku":"9780674986855","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6969a681-05ab-4034-92dd-bcad34d112b6.jpg?v=1727708159","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rage-for-order-the-british-empire-and-the-origins-of-international-law-1800-1850-9780674986855","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}