International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it come from? Rage for Order finds the origins of international law in empiresâespecially in the British Empireâs sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and use it to order the world in the early part of that century. âRage for Order is a book of exceptional range and insight. Its successes are numerous. At a time when questions of law and legalism are attracting more and more attention from historians of 19th-century Britain and its empire, but still tend to be considered within very specific contexts, its sweep and ambition are particularly welcomeâRage for Order is a book that deserves to have major implications both for international legal history, and for the history of modern imperialism.â?âAlex Middleton, Reviews in HistoryâRage for Order offers a fresh account of nineteenth-century global order that takes us beyond worn liberal and post-colonial narratives into a new and more adventurous terrain.â?âJens Bartelson, Australian Historical Studies