The King's Plunder, The King's Bodies: Prize Laws, the British Empire and the Modern Legal Order

This book focuses on the King’s rights of conquest, plunder and prize, as well as allegiance and subjecthood, establishing a monarchical form of the British Empire between 1600 and 1900, notwithstanding King-in-Parliament. Special attention is given to its essential role in the East India Company’s government as well as its conquests, as much as its taking the shape of ‘direct’ Crown rule after 1857–58. Such forms of sovereign territorialization, the ‘King’s bodies’ and ‘corporations’, loca...