Boundaries of the international : law and empire / Jennifer Pitts.
Boundaries of the international : law and empire / Jennifer Pitts.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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G 2018/6129
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English
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293 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2018.
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Against the dominant narrative first developed in the eighteenth century, which has held that international law had its origins in relations between sovereign European states that respected each other as free and equal, Boundaries of the International examines the deep entanglement of international law with European imperial expansion. As commercia...
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Boundaries of the international : law and empire / Jennifer Pitts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/6129
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74VKVQ77yvgg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVQ77yvgg
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ISBN
0674980816 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780674980815 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
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341.09
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991024195687202626
