Sovereignty, property and empire, 1500-2000
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. Andrew Fitzmaurice focuses upon the use of the law of occupation to justify and criti...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Ideas in context ; 107. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40527359*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Occupation from Roman law to Salamanca
- The Salamanca school in England
- Occupation and convention
- Theories of occupation in the eighteenth century
- The Seven Years War, land speculation and the American Revolution
- Occupation in the nineteenth century
- Res nullius and sovereignty
- Territorium nullius and Africa
- Terra nullius and the polar regions
- Conclusion.
