Arbitrating Empire - United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law

Arbitrating Empire uncovers how ordinary people used arbitral claims commissions to challenge state violence across the United States Empire during the first decades of the twentieth century and why the State Department attempts to erase their efforts remade modern international law.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Introduction: The Subjects of International Law


• Part I: Dispossessions


• Chapter 1: Arbitrating Debt


• Chapter 2: Arbitrating War


• Chapter 3: Arbitrating Citizenship


• Part II: Exposures


• Chapter 4: The World's Easement


• Chapter 5: Dangerous Precedents


• Part III: Foreclosures


• Chapter 6: Sovereign Inequalities


• Chapter 7: The Specter of Compensation


• Conclusion: Life and Property

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Allison Powers is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Zusammenfassung

Arbitrating Empire uncovers how ordinary people used arbitral claims commissions to challenge state violence across the United States Empire during the first decades of the twentieth century and why the State Department attempts to erase their efforts remade modern international law.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Allison Powers, Allison (Assistant Professor of History Powers
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9780190093006
• ISBN: 978-0-19-009300-6
• Seiten: 290
• Serie: Oxford Legal History
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Internationales Recht, Ausländisches Recht; USA, 20th Century, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Arbitration, Negotiation, Mediation, International Arbitration, Legal History, United States of America, USA, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, International law: arbitration, Public international law: territory and statehood, International law of territory & statehood