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Beschreibung
A Search for Sovereignty examines how European imperial powers imagined imperial space, constructing sovereignty in ways that merged geographic discourse with law.
A Search for Sovereignty examines how European imperial powers imagined imperial space, constructing sovereignty in ways that merged geographic discourse with law.
Über den Autor
Lauren Benton is Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Law at New York University. Her book Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 (Cambridge, 2002) won the Law and Society Association's James Willard Hurst Book Prize, the World History Association Book Prize, and the PEWS Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Political Economy of the World Systems Section.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780521707435
ISBN-10: 0521707439
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Benton, Lauren
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Lauren Benton
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2009
Gewicht: 0,581 kg
Artikel-ID: 101542250