Lauren Benton
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lauren Benton is an American historian known for her works on the global history of empires, colonial and imperial law, and the history of international law. She is Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law at Yale University.
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- A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900 (2009) (351)
- BOOK REVIEWS - LAW AND COLONIAL CULTURES: LEGAL REGIMES IN WORLD HISTORY, 1400-1900. (2001) (238)
- Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850 (2016) (115)
- Legal Spaces of Empire: Piracy and the Origins of Ocean Regionalism (2005) (93)
- Acquiring Empire by Law: From Roman Doctrine to Early Modern European Practice (2010) (92)
- Colonial Law and Cultural Difference: Jurisdictional Politics and the Formation of the Colonial State (1999) (78)
- Beyond Legal Pluralism: Towards a New Approach To Law in the Informal Sector (1994) (72)
- Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 (2013) (64)
- From International Law to Imperial Constitutions: The Problem of Quasi-Sovereignty, 1870–1900 (2008) (49)
- Made in Italy: Small‐Scale Industrialization and its Consequences (1993) (43)
- From the World-Systems Perspective to Institutional World History: Culture and Economy in Global Theory (2005) (41)
- Adult Illiteracy and Economic Performance. (1992) (33)
- Toward a New Legal History of Piracy: Maritime Legalities and the Myth of Universal Jurisdiction (2011) (32)
- The Legal Regime of the South Atlantic World, 1400-1750: Jurisdictional Complexity as Institutional Order (2000) (31)
- Beyond Anachronism: Histories of International Law and Global Legal Politics (2019) (29)
- Abolition and Imperial Law, 1790–1820 (2011) (28)
- Empires and legal pluralism: Jurisdiction, sovereignty, and political imagination in the early modern world (2013) (26)
- Historical Perspectives on Legal Pluralism (2011) (25)
- Protection and Empire: A Global History (2017) (18)
- The ERP correlates of self-knowledge: Are assessments of one’s past, present, and future traits closer to semantic or episodic memory? (2017) (17)
- Spatial Histories of Empire (2006) (15)
- Making Order Out of Trouble: Jurisdictional Politics in the Spanish Colonial Borderlands (2001) (15)
- Legal encounters and the origins of global law (2015) (14)
- Constitutions and Empires (2006) (14)
- No Longer Odd Region Out: Repositioning Latin America in World History (2004) (13)
- On Cultural Hybridity: Interpreting Colonial Authority and Performance (2000) (13)
- Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes and Colonial Cultures (2001) (11)
- Empires and Legal Pluralism (2013) (10)
- Law and Colonial Cultures: Frontmatter (2001) (10)
- The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law by Jenny S. Martinez (review) (2014) (9)
- Empires and protection: making interpolity law in the early modern world* (2017) (9)
- “The Laws of This Country”: Foreigners and the Legal Construction of Sovereignty in Uruguay, 1830–1875 (2001) (8)
- The British Atlantic in Global Context (2009) (8)
- Introduction: The long, strange history of protection (2017) (8)
- Possessing EmpireIberian Claims and Interpolity Law (2011) (7)
- Made in Empire: Finding the History of International Law in Imperial Locations (2018) (6)
- Island Despotism: Trinidad, the British Imperial Constitution and Global Legal Order (2018) (5)
- Magistrates in Empire (2013) (5)
- Colonizing Hawai'i and Colonizing Elsewhere: Toward a History of U.S. Imperial Law (2004) (5)
- Legal Pluralism and Development: Historical Perspectives on Legal Pluralism (2012) (4)
- Just Despots: The Cultural Construction of Imperial Constitutionalism (2013) (4)
- Legalities of the Sea in Gentili’s Hispanica Advocatio (2010) (4)
- The Space between Empires: Coastal and Insular Microregions in the Early Nineteenth-Century World (2015) (3)
- Hybrid Constitutions: Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America (2012) (3)
- Not Just a Concept: Institutions and the “Rule of Law” (2009) (3)
- How to Write the History of the World (2012) (2)
- Law for the Empire: The Common Law in Colonial America and the Problem of Legal Diversity (2014) (2)
- TEN. Shadows of Sovereignty Legal Encounters and the Politics of Protection in the Atlantic World (2017) (2)
- Constituting the imperial community: rights, common good and authority in Britain's Atlantic empire, 1607–1815 (2015) (2)
- Webs of protection and interpolity zones in the early modern world (2018) (2)
- Encounters Old and New in World History: Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley (2017) (2)
- The Specter of Sovereignty: Reflections on Teaching about Empires and Political Imagination (2013) (1)
- David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History , Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 300. $23.95 (ISBN 978-0-674- 02282-9). (2008) (1)
- 5. Ordering the Oceans (2016) (1)
- Law and Colonial Cultures: A Place for the State: Legal Pluralism As a Colonial Project in Bengal and West Africa (2001) (1)
- Law in Diaspora: The Legal Regime of the Atlantic World (2001) (1)
- Law and Colonial Cultures: Culture and the Rule(s) of Law (2001) (1)
- Law and Colonial Cultures: Constructing Sovereignty: Extraterritoriality in the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (2001) (1)
- 4. The Promise of Protection (2016) (1)
- Introduction:: Making Maritime History Global (2020) (1)
- Imperial Circuits of Law: Dutch East India Company Sovereignty (2011) (1)
- Afterward: the space of political community and the space of authority (2018) (1)
- Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America by Allan Greer (review) (2019) (1)
- Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies, John McLaren, A.R. Buck, Nancy Wright (Eds.). UBC Press, Vancouver (2005), 352 pages, CDN$29.95 paperback (2006) (1)
- 12. Pirate Passages in Global History: Afterword (2021) (0)
- A Search for Sovereignty: Anomalies of Empire (2009) (0)
- A Search for Sovereignty: Bare Sovereignty and Empire (2009) (0)
- Colonialism and the Modern World: Selected Studies (review) (2004) (0)
- Shadows of Sovereignty (2018) (0)
- Order out of Trouble: Jurisdictional Tensions in Catholic and Islamic Empires (2001) (0)
- Rage for Order (2016) (0)
- A focused look at shampoo fragrance in the U.S. and Europe (1996) (0)
- Nasser Hussain, The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law , Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. 192. $59.50 (ISBN 0-472-11328-3). (2005) (0)
- Antoinette Burton, Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India . New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 202 pp. ISBN 0-19-514425-2. (2004) (0)
- »A just outcome is possible« an interview about legal pluralism, jurisdictional conflicts and imperial law in historical perspective (2015) (0)
- Business Services (2019) (0)
- Protection, the Imperial Constitution, and the British Global Order, 1790-1850 (2014) (0)
- A Search for Sovereignty: Treacherous Places (2009) (0)
- Subjects and Witnesses: Cultural and Legal Hierarchies in the Cape Colony and New South Wales (2001) (0)
- The Legal Logic of Wars of Conquest: Truces and Betrayal in the Early Modern World (2018) (0)
- After the Crisis: The Politics of a Global Pivot (2016) (0)
- Empires and the Rule of Law: Arbitrary Justice and Imperial Legal Ordering (2021) (0)
- Writing World History 1800-2000 (2005) (0)
- The Space between Empires (2015) (0)
- Law and Colonial Cultures: Bibliography (2001) (0)
- Elizabeth Kolsky, Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 266. $95.00 (ISBN 978-0-521-11686-2). (2010) (0)
- The Retailing Industry (2019) (0)
- Literacy and Work (2019) (0)
- Pirate Passages in Global History (2021) (0)
- 3. The Commissioner’s World (2016) (0)
- Pirate Passages in Global History: Afterword (2021) (0)
- A Search for Sovereignty: Preface and Acknowledgments (2009) (0)
- Afterword:: Land-Sea Regimes in World History (2020) (0)
- Empires and Jurisdictional Politics (2020) (0)
- A Search for Sovereignty: Landlocked (2009) (0)
- Okonkwo ' s Trials Reconsidered : A ( More ) Comprehensive History of Colonial State Development , reviewing (2013) (0)
- 2. Controlling Despotic Dominions (2016) (0)
- The Textile Industry (2019) (0)
- 7. A Great Disorder (2016) (0)
- Afterword: (2020) (0)
- 6. An Empire of States (2016) (0)
- The Banking Industry (2019) (0)
- 1. A Global Empire of Law (2016) (0)
- A Search for Sovereignty: Sovereignty at Sea (2009) (0)
- In Defense of Ignorance (2018) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Writing World History 1800-2000 Benedikt Stuchtey, Eckhardt Fuchs (2005) (0)
- A Search for Sovereignty: Bibliography (2009) (0)
- Protection Emergencies: Justifying Measures Short of War in the British Empire (2021) (0)
- 1 Anomalies of Empire In his geographical treatise of 1537 , the Portuguese cosmographer (2009) (0)
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