Benton and Clulow's article echoes Isabelle Surun's analysis of early French imperialism in Western Africa:

▶️ Isabelle SURUN, Writing Sovereignty in Invisible Ink? Autochthonous Sovereignty and Territorial Appropriations in Nineteenth-Century Franco-African Treaties
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/S2398568200000741

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What can Pitcairn, a minuscule island in the middle of the Pacific, teach us about British imperialism? Quite a lot, when examined by Lauren Benton and Adam Clulow. Delving into the fluctuating relationship between the British Crown and that small territory, the authors explore the multiple makeshift arrangements and unexpected juridical twists that made up Britain's "informal empire."

▶️ Lauren BENTON & Adam CLULOW, How Not to Possess an Island: Pitcairn and the Legal Circuits of British Empire in the Pacific World
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.21

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