Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500-2000

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

This book analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century. Its geographical scope is global, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Poles. Fitzmaurice focuses upon the use of the law of occupation to justify and critique the appropriation of territory.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Fitzmaurice, Andrew (University of Sydney) Fitzmaurice
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2014
• EAN: 9781107076495
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07649-5
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Ideas in Context; Print On Demand; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous