TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benton, Lauren A.
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2010//
TI  - search for sovereignty: law and geography in European Empires, 1400--1900
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Law and geography
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Law and geography ; Europe ; History
KW  - Europe ; Boundaries ; History
KW  - Boundaries
AB  - A Search for Sovereignty approaches world history by examining the relation of law and geography in European empires between 1400 and 1900. Lauren Benton argues that Europeans imagined imperial space as networks of corridors and enclaves, and that they constructed sovereignty in ways that merged ideas about geography and law. Conflicts over treason, piracy, convict transportation, martial law, and crime created irregular spaces of law, while also attaching legal meanings to familiar geographic categories such as rivers, oceans, islands, and mountains. The resulting legal and spatial anomalies influenced debates about imperial constitutions and international law both in the colonies and at home. This study changes our understanding of empire and its legacies and opens new perspectives on the global history of law
SN  - 9780511988905
UR  - https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780511988905.pdf
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511988905
DO  - 10.1017/CBO9780511988905
LA  - English
N1  - Lauren Benton
ID  - 874301661
ER  -