Andrew Fitzmaurice

Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500-2000

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9781107433663
• ISBN-10: 1107433665
• Artikelnr.: 47551628

Autorenporträt

Andrew Fitzmaurice is Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Humanism and America: An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 1500-1625 (Cambridge, 2003), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought (Cambridge, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

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.