Rage for Order

<p>International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it come from? <i>Rage for Order</i> finds the origins of international law in empires--especially in the British Empire's sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and use it to order the world in the early part of that century. <p/><i>Rage for Order </i>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 welcome...<i>Rage for Order </i>is a book that deserves to have major implications both for international legal history and for the history of modern imperialism.<br>--Alex Middleton <i>Reviews in History</i> <p/><i>Rage for Order</i> 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.<br>--Jens Bartelson <i>Australian Historical Studies</i></p>