Boundaries of the International : : Law and Empire / / Jennifer Pitts.
It is commonly believed that international law originated in relations among European states that respected one another as free and equal. In fact, as Jennifer Pitts shows, international law was forged at least as much through Europeans’ domineering relations with non-European states and empires, le...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (188 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Empire and International Law
- Oriental Despotism and the Ottoman Empire
- Nations and Empires in Vattel’s World
- Critical Legal Universalism in the Eighteenth Century
- The Rise of Positivism?
- Historicism in Victorian International Law
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index