This new book by historian Lauren Benton offers a novel five-century history of violence in Europ...

A Search for Sovereignty examines how European imperial powers imagined imperial space, construct...

This book examines how European imperial powers imagined imperial space, constructing sovereignty...

This book situates protection at the centre of the global history of empires, thus advancing a ne...

This book situates protection at the centre of the global history of empires, thus advancing a ne...

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

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

Throughout, the authors' theoretical observations serve not only to unify material from diverse s...

International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it ...

Invisible Factories analyzes the role of the informal economy in national development and weighs ...

A World at Sea sharpens and expands our understanding of how the maritime world contributed to gl...

Invisible Factories analyzes the role of the informal economy in national development and weighs ...

'This volume developed out of a 2010 conference on New Perspectives on Legal Pluralism organized ...

Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford find the origins of international law in empires, especially in the B...