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  A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900 (Paperback) By (author) Lauren Benton

  

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  Short Description for A Search for SovereigntyA Search for Sovereignty examines how European imperial powers imagined imperial space, constructing sovereignty in ways that merged geographic discourse with law.
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  • Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 01 December 2009
  • Format: Paperback 356 pages
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  • Categories: Geopolitics | Legal History | General & World History | European History | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900 | Historical Geography | Colonialism & Imperialism
  • ISBN 13: 9780521707435 ISBN 10: 0521707439
  • Sales rank: 203,699

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• A Search for Sovereignty maps a new approach to 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 original study changes our understanding of empire and its legacies and opens new perspectives on the global history of law.