Imagining World Order : : Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800 /

Imagining World Order : : Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800 / / Chenxi Tang.

In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no acknowl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Tang, Chenxi,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 4 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Old World Order Dissolving
  • 2. The Poetics of International Legal Order
  • 3. International Order as Tragedy
  • 4. International Order as Romance
  • 5. The Divergence between International Law and Literature around 1700
  • 6. The Novel and International Order in the Eighteenth Century
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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