2. “Bundles of Hyphens”

Stern, Philip

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“…The millet system was a "…form of indirect rule based on religious difference", through which "The state gave up its control of the internal dynamics of the [Jewish, Greek Orthodox or Armenian] community in return for regular taxation and cohesive 30 Sovereignty claims: Benton 2007Benton , 2002and Benton and Straumann 2010;treaties andtrade: Benton andRoss 2013 andStern 2013;dispossession: Kedar 2014; 'extraterritoriality': Kayaoğlu 2010, with reference to the Japanese, Ottoman and Chinese empires. 31 Benda-Beckmann and Benda-Beckmann 2014, 33.…”

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Law, Bureaucracy, and the Practice of Government and Rule

Humfress¹

2021

The Oxford World History of Empire

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This chapter explores the “logic of empire” in relation to law, bureaucracy, and the practice of government, from the Ancient world to the present. Beginning with the complex example of Haile Selassie I and the Ethiopian Empire, the chapter analyzes the many universalisms of law and empire, before moving on to a survey of different “repertories” of imperial rule. The chapter then examines the numerous ways in which empires put law “to work,” facilitating the development of multiple, normative orders and institutions far beyond the jurisdiction of their own imperial officials. The final section of the chapter briefly introduces (post)colonial legal scholarship and the concept of “legalism from below,” with a specific focus on recent archival research in courtroom records.

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Law, Bureaucracy, and the Practice of Government and Rule

Humfress¹

2021

The Oxford World History of Empire

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“…102 The British East India company, too, has been named by contemporaries "a state in the disguise of a merchant". 103 Many parts of America, were also settled by corporations created expressly for that purpose, 104 the occupation of land being the characteristic of sovereignty par excellence, at least according to its classical territorial understanding.…”

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The Microsoft Ireland Case and the Cyberspace Sovereignty Trilemma. Post-Territorial Technologies and Companies Question Territorial State Sovereignty and Regulatory State Monopolies

Hert

Thumfart

2018

SSRN Journal

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T he Microsoft Ireland case brought before the Supreme Court in 2018 and dropped the very same year has attracted attention world-wide from policymakers and scholars. This contribution focusses on two important features of the case: the conflicting and often chaotic approaches to the notion of sovereignty of many of the players and the remarkable move of a private company to trigger regulation in a world where companies, technologies, data flows and governments transgress borders with growing acceptance of the inadequacy of older territorial comprehensions of the world order.

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“…91 However, in the case of the EIC this approach was more than simply controlling employees and connects this innovative joint-stock enterprise with its preceding social-corporate organisations and demonstrates how we can do more to reflect on the company's relationship to its employees to develop a better understanding of the social history of this emerging 'company-state'. 92 The company often responded to appeals from individuals for redress of specific grievances. In 1624 the Company received a petition from the Clerk of General Stores at Blackwall, Robert Fotherby, asking for a raise in wages due to an increased workload without any additional assistance.…”

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Corporate Management, Labor Relations, and Community Building at the East India Company’s Blackwall Dockyard, 1600–57

Pettigrew¹,

Smith²

2018

Journal of Social History

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This essay offers a social history of the labor relations established by the English East India Company at its Blackwall Dockyard in East London from 1615–45. It uses all of the relevant evidence from the company’s minute books and printed bylaws and from petitions to the company to assemble a full account of the relationships formed between skilled and unskilled workers, managers, and company officials. Challenging other historians’ depictions of early modern dockyards as sites for class confrontation, this essay offers a more agile account of the hierarchies within the yard to suggest how and why the workforce used its considerable power to challenge management and when and why it was successful in doing so. Overall, the essay suggests that the East India Company developed and prioritized a broader social constituency around the dockyard over particular labor lobbies to preempt accusations that it abdicated its social responsibilities. In this way, the company reconciled the competing interests of profit (as a joint stock company with investors) and social responsibility by, to some extent, assuming the social role of its progenitor organizations—the livery company and the borough corporation.

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2. “Bundles of Hyphens”

Cited by 31 publications

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Law, Bureaucracy, and the Practice of Government and Rule

Law, Bureaucracy, and the Practice of Government and Rule

The Microsoft Ireland Case and the Cyberspace Sovereignty Trilemma. Post-Territorial Technologies and Companies Question Territorial State Sovereignty and Regulatory State Monopolies

Corporate Management, Labor Relations, and Community Building at the East India Company’s Blackwall Dockyard, 1600–57

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