Author Archives: Lauren Benton

About Lauren Benton

Professor of history and law and dean of humanities at New York University. Her research focuses on the comparative legal history of empires. Her recent books are Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400–1900 (Cambridge, 2002), which was awarded the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize and the World History Association Book Prize, and A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900 (Cambridge, 2010).

Of Pirates, Empire, and Terror: An Interview with Lauren Benton and Dan Edelstein

June 10, 2014 by Dan Edelstein, Editorial Collective and Lauren Benton

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Two important new books, histories of the early modern period, are starkly different in their topics, approaches, and conclusions. Yet they both intersect the topic of piracy in its heyday.

The latest issue of Humanity is out! Its special dossier interrogates recent humanitarian laws on the protection of healthcare workers, with essays examining various histories of attacks on healthcare in the long twentieth century. The issue also includes essays on a new politics of care as an alternative political framework to that of human rights; Carl Schmitt’s tenets of international law; and Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s racial and cultural ideas on political economy. View entire issue >

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