Sovereignty, property and empire, 1500-2000 /

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 criti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fitzmaurice, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Colección:Ideas in context ; 107.
Temas:
International law > History.
Indigenous peoples > Legal status, laws, etc. > History.
Colonization > History.
Sovereignty > History.
Conquest, Right of > History.
Droit international > Histoire.
Colonisation > Histoire.
Souveraineté > Histoire.
Droit de conquête > Histoire.
LAW > International.
Colonization
Conquest, Right of
Indigenous peoples > Legal status, laws, etc.
International law
Sovereignty
Kolonialismus
Imperialismus
Landnahme
Eroberung
Völkerrecht
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Occupation from Roman law to Salamanca
  • The Salamanca school in England
  • Occupation and convention
  • Theories of occupation in the eighteenth century
  • The Seven Years War, land speculation and the American Revolution
  • Occupation in the nineteenth century
  • Res nullius and sovereignty
  • Territorium nullius and Africa
  • Terra nullius and the polar regions
  • Conclusion.

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