Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500-2000
Title | Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500-2000 PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Fitzmaurice |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2014-10-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107076498 |
Adopting a global approach, Fitzmaurice analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century.
Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500–2000
Title | Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500–2000 PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Fitzmaurice |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2014-10-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1316123901 |
This book analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century. Its geographical scope is global, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Poles. Andrew Fitzmaurice focuses upon the use of the law of occupation to justify and critique the appropriation of territory. He examines both discussions of occupation by theologians, philosophers and jurists, as well as its application by colonial publicists and settlers themselves. Beginning with the medieval revival of Roman law, this study reveals the evolution of arguments concerning the right to occupy through the School of Salamanca, the foundation of American colonies, seventeenth-century natural law theories, Enlightenment philosophers, eighteenth-century American colonies and the new American republic, writings of nineteenth-century jurists, debates over the carve up of Africa, twentieth-century discussions of the status of Polar territories, and the period of decolonisation.
Rage for Order
Title | Rage for Order PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren Benton |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2016-10-03 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0674972805 |
International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it come from? Rage for Order finds the origins of international law in empires—especially in the British Empire’s sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and use it to order the world in the early part of that century. “Rage for Order is a book of exceptional range and insight. Its successes are numerous. At a time when questions of law and legalism are attracting more and more attention from historians of 19th-century Britain and its empire, but still tend to be considered within very specific contexts, its sweep and ambition are particularly welcome...Rage for Order is a book that deserves to have major implications both for international legal history, and for the history of modern imperialism.” —Alex Middleton, Reviews in History “Rage for Order offers a fresh account of nineteenth-century global order that takes us beyond worn liberal and post-colonial narratives into a new and more adventurous terrain.” —Jens Bartelson, Australian Historical Studies
Leibniz: Political Writings
Title | Leibniz: Political Writings PDF eBook |
Author | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1988-11-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521358996 |
In this new edition, Professor Riley makes available the most representative pieces from Leibniz's political theory.
Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World
Title | Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World PDF eBook |
Author | Ken MacMillan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2006-11-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521870097 |
How did English notions of sovereignty, empire and law impact their methods of settlement in the Americas?
Empire and the Making of Native Title
Title | Empire and the Making of Native Title PDF eBook |
Author | Bain Attwood |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 457 |
Release | 2020-07-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108478298 |
This book provides a strikingly original explanation of the Britain's treatment of sovereignty and native title in its Australasian colonies.
Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution
Title | Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Edward James Kolla |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2017-10-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107179548 |
This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.