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Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire

scale ‘how empire worked and how its workings changed over time’ through coercive practices and performances of authority (228). Written in her signature style of elegance and erudition, The King’s Peace consolidates Lisa Ford’s place as a leading scholar of British imperial legal order, its transformative shifts, and its capacities for state formation. But as she emphasises, this is also a history for our modern times. The empire’s evolving capacity to build colonial order and protect the king’s peace resonates with the ‘vast executive discretion’ of anglophone liberal democracies today (232). This then is a history that speaks to the everyday relationship between the modern state and its citizens, to the powers of modern policing, and to the fragile balance between order and justice.