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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Pitts, Jennifer (1970-....)
Titre(s) : Boundaries of the international [Texte imprimé] : law and empire / Jennifer Pitts
Publication : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University press, 2018
Description matérielle : 293 pages ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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 commercial relations with states such as the Ottoman and Empire and China intensified,
European legal and political writers increasingly described them as anomalous and
backward empires in a modern world of nation-states, even as European states were
themselves expanding their imperial reach across the globe. The debate over the boundaries
of international law included legal authorities from Vattel to Wheaton to Westlake
but ranged well beyond professional jurists to political thinkers such as Montesquieu,
Edmund Burke, and J.S. Mill, legislators and diplomats, colonial administrators and
journalists. Dissident voices in this broader public debate insisted that European
states had extensive legal obligations abroad. These critics provide valuable resources
for the critical scrutiny of the political, economic, and legal inequalities that
continue to afflict the global order.
Sujet(s) : Droit international -- Histoire -- Sources
Impérialisme -- 18e siècle
Impérialisme -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674980815. - ISBN 0674980816
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45476504h
Notice n° :
FRBNF45476504
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
