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Zusatztext Charles Henry Alexandrowicz (1902-1975) was among the few who recognized the presence of multiple international, or regional, legal systems on the planet co-terminus with European international law. That a superhuman effort was required to trace his numerous publications is further evidence of how valuable this collection is. Informationen zum Autor Charles Henry Alexandrowicz (1902-1975) was a Polish scholar who pioneered research in the critical history of international law in the 1950s and 1960s. His works included World Economic Agencies, Law and Practice (1962); An Introduction to the History of the Law of Nations in the East Indies (1967); The Law of Global Communications (1971); and The Law-Making Functions of the Specialised Agencies of the United Nations (1973). David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual and international history. He is also an Affiliated Faculty member at Harvard Law School and an Affiliated Professor in Harvard's Department of Government. Among his publications are The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007), Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013), The History Manifesto (co-auth., 2014), and Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017). Jennifer Pitts is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She is author of A Turn to Empire: the rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and France (2005) and editor and translator of Alexis de Tocqueville: writings on empire and slavery (2001). She is currently completing a book,Boundaries of the International, that explores European debates over legal relations with extra-European societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung This collection gathers together the most important articles written by the pioneering historian of international law, C.H. Alexandrowicz. The essays shed new light on the development of international law, and particularly the influence of States outside the West. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: David Armitage and Jennifer Pitts: 'This Modern Grotius': An Introduction to the Life and Thought of C.H. Alexandrowicz PART ONE: THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE LAW OF NATIONS 2: Kautilyan Principles and the Law of Nations (1965-66) 3: Paulus Vladimiri and the Development of the Doctrine of the Coexistence of Christian and Non-Christian Countries (1963) 4: Mogul Sovereignty and the Law of Nations (1955) PART TWO: ASIA AND THE LAW OF NATIONS 5: 'Jus Gentium' and the Law of Nature in Asia (1956) 6: Some Problems in the History of the Law of Nations in Asia (1963) 7: Le Droit des Nations aux Indes Orientales: Aux XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles (1964) 8: Grotius and India (1954) 9: Freitas Versus Grotius (1959) 10: The Discriminatory Clause in South Asian Treaties in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1957) 11: A Persian-Dutch Treaty in the Seventeenth Century (1958) 12: Puffendorf-Crull and the Afro-Asian World (1968-69) 13: A Treatise by J. H. G. Justi on Asian Government (1960-61) 14: Doctrinal Aspects of the Universality of the Law of Nations (1961) 15: G. F. de Martens on Asian Treaty Practice (1964) 16: The Continuity of the Sovereign Status of China in International Law (1956) 17: The Legal Position of Tibet (1954) 18: Is India a Federation? (1954) PART THREE: AFRICA AND THE LAW OF NATIONS 19: Le Rôle des Traités dans les Relations entre les Puissances Européennes et les Souverains Africains (Aspects historiques) (1970) 20: The Partition of Africa by Treaty (1974) 21: The Role of Treaties in the European-African Confrontation in the Nineteenth Century (1975) 22: The Role of German Treaty Making in the Partition of Africa (1980) 23: The Juridica...
