Protection and Empire: A Global History - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108405967 ISBN 13 : 9781108405966

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2018

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

For five centuries protection has provided a basic currency for organising relations between polities. Protection underpinned sprawling tributary systems, permeated networks of long-distance trade, reinforced claims of royal authority in distant colonies and structured treaties. Empires made routine use of protection as they extended their influence, projecting authority over old and new subjects, forcing weaker parties to pay them for safe conduct and, sometimes, paying for it themselves. The result was a fluid politics that absorbed both the powerful and the weak while giving rise to institutions and jurisdictional arrangements with broad geographic scope and influence. This volume brings together leading scholars to trace the long history of protection across empires in Asia, Africa, Australasia, Europe and the Americas. Employing a global lens, it offers an innovative way of understanding the formation and growth of empires and uncovers new dimensions of the relation of empires to regional and global order.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Lauren Benton is Nelson Tyrone Jr Professor of History and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. She is a comparative and world historian whose research focuses on law in European empires, the history of international law, and Atlantic world history.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1108405967
• ISBN 13: 9781108405966
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 290