A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900

by Lauren Benton and Lauren A. Benton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521707439
• ISBN13: 9780521707435
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"