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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.

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