{"title":"Lisa Ford","description":"\u003cp\u003eLisa Ford’s work delves into the intricate histories of colonial and imperial governance, exploring themes of power, sovereignty, and legal authority. Her books offer thoughtful analyses that challenge traditional narratives, providing a deeper understanding of how colonial rule shaped modern states and societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in historical scholarship and critical perspectives on empire will find her writing both rigorous and engaging. With a focus on education and reference, Lisa Ford’s publications serve as essential resources for those seeking to explore the complexities of colonial history and its lasting impact.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-kings-peace-by-lisa-ford-9780674249073","title":"The King’s Peace","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow the imposition of Crown rule across the British Empire during the Age of Revolution corroded the rights of British subjects and laid the foundations of the modern police state.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British Empire responded to numerous crises in its colonies, from North America to Jamaica, Bengal to New South Wales. This was the Age of Revolution, and the Crown, through colonial governors, tested an array of coercive peacekeeping methods in a desperate effort to maintain control. In the process, these leaders transformed what it meant to be a British subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the decades after the American Revolution, colonial legal regimes were transformed as the king's representatives ruled new colonies with an increasingly heavy hand. These new autocratic regimes blurred the lines between the rule of law and the rule of the sword. Safeguards of liberty and justice, developed in the wake of the Glorious Revolution, were eroded while exacting obedience and imposing order became the focus of colonial governance. In the process, many constitutional principles of empire were subordinated to a single, overarching rule: where necessary, colonial law could diverge from metropolitan law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin decades of the American Revolution, Lisa Ford shows, the rights claimed by American rebels became unthinkable in the British Empire. Some colonial subjects fought back but, in the empire, the real winner of the American Revolution was the king.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn tracing the dramatic growth of colonial executive power and the increasing deployment of arbitrary policing and military violence to maintain order, \u003ci\u003eThe King’s Peace\u003c\/i\u003e provides important lessons on the relationship between peacekeeping, sovereignty, and political subjectivity—lessons that illuminate contemporary debates over the imbalance between liberty and security.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432947138796,"sku":"9780674249073","price":73.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674249073.jpg?v=1774766019"},{"product_id":"settler-sovereignty-by-lisa-ford-9780674061880","title":"Settler Sovereignty","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a brilliant comparative study of law and imperialism, Lisa Ford argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America and Australia defined indigenous theft and violence as crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis occurred, not at the moment of settlement or federation, but in the second quarter of the nineteenth century when notions of statehood, sovereignty, empire, and civilisation were in rapid, global flux. Ford traces the emergence of modern settler sovereignty in everyday contests between settlers and indigenous people in early national Georgia and the colony of New South Wales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn both places before 1820, most settlers and indigenous people understood their conflicts as war, resolved disputes with diplomacy, and relied on shared notions like reciprocity and retaliation to address frontier theft and violence. This legal pluralism, however, was under stress as new, global statecraft linked sovereignty to the exercise of perfect territorial jurisdiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Georgia, New South Wales, and elsewhere, settler sovereignty emerged when, at the same time in history, settlers rejected legal pluralism and moved to control or remove indigenous peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471533457644,"sku":"9780674061880","price":61.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674061880-settler-sovereignty.jpg?v=1775246005"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/lisa-ford.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}