Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500-2000

ISBN-13: 9781107433663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 400 str.

Andrew Fitzmaurice

Opis

Adopting a global approach, Fitzmaurice analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century.

Recenzje

'Occupancy, property, and the right and the power to possess are, as Andrew Fitzmaurice says at the beginning of his ambitious and compelling new book, the basis of all human societies and the foundations of all (Western) political thinking.' Anthony Pagden, The Journal of Modern History

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Occupation from Roman law to Salamanca; 3. The Salamanca School in England; 4. Occupation and convention; 5. Theories of occupation in the eighteenth century; 6. The Seven Years' War, land speculation and the American Revolution; 7. Occupation in the nineteenth century; 8. Res nullius and sovereignty; 9. Territorium nullius and Africa; 10. Terra nullius and the Polar regions; 11. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.