“Lost in Translation”: Extraterritoriality, Subjecthood, and Subjectivity in the Anglo–Yemeni Treaty of 1821

IT Cohen - Law and History Review, 2024 - cambridge.org
In 1821, an expeditionary force of the Bombay Marine imposed an unequal treaty upon the
imam of Sana 'a, sovereign of the Yemeni port of Mocha. Previous accounts, depicting the …

Recrafting Subjecthood through Exceptional Laws in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

A Nettelbeck - Legal Histories of Empire, 2025 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter considers how exceptional laws of protection helped to craft indentured and
Indigenous peoples as new subjects of the British Empire in the years after the abolition of …