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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Ideas in context ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 378 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316129357 1316129357 9781139924306 1139924303 9781316131534 131613153X 1107433665 9781107433663 1316120635 9781316120637 1316121720 9781316121726 1316133710 9781316133712 1316132625 9781316132623 1316130444 9781316130445 1316128261 9781316128268 |