Imagining world order : literature and international law in early modern Europe, 1500-1800 / Chenxi...
Imagining world order : literature and international law in early modern Europe, 1500-1800 / Chenxi...
Imagining world order : literature and international law in early modern Europe, 1500-1800 / Chenxi Tang.
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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
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G 2019/0192
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 341 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
The old world order dissolving -- The poetics of international legal order -- International order as tragedy -- International order as romance -- The divergence between international law and literature around 1700 -- The novel and international order in the eighteenth century.
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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2018.
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"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 acknowledged common authority that would create, change,...
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Imagining world order : literature and international law in early modern Europe, 1500-1800 / Chenxi Tang.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/0192
Record Identifier
74VKV0vDljJX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV0vDljJX
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ISBN
1501716913 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781501716911 hardcover ; alkaline paper
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809.933554
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991024224008202626
