A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900

ISBN-13: 9780521707435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 358 str.

Lauren Benton

Opis

This 2010 book examines how European imperial powers imagined imperial space, constructing sovereignty in ways that merged geographic discourse with law.

Recenzje

'… succeed[s] in presenting a compelling set of reasons for questioning teleological accounts of sovereignty … [Benton] provides many points of entry for further elaboration on the ways in which empire disrupts the narrative of a steady convergence of sovereignty and bounded territory culminating in the present international legal order.' Kate Purcell, British Yearbook of International Law

Spis treści

1. Introduction: anomalies of empire; 2. Treacherous places: Atlantic riverine regions and the law of treason; 3. Sovereignty at sea: jurisdiction, piracy, and ocean regionalism; 4. Island chains: military law and convict transportation; 5. Landlocked: colonial enclaves and the problem of quasi-sovereignty; 6. Conclusion: bare sovereignty and empire.