To the uttermost parts of the earth : legal imagination and international power, 1300-1870 / Martti Koskenniemi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koskenniemi, Martti, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.

Grotius, Hugo.

International law--History.

International law.

History.

Natural law--History.

Natural law.

Religion and law--History.

Religion and law.

Rule of law--History.

Rule of law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 1107 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth shows the vital role played by legal imagination in the formation of the international order during 1300-1870. It discusses how European statehood arose during early modernity as a locally specific combination of ideas about sovereign power and property rights, and how those ideas expanded to structure the formation of European empires and consolidate modern international relations. By connecting the development of legal thinking with the history of political thought and by showing the gradual rise of economic analysis into predominance, the author argues that legal ideas from different European legal systems - Spanish, French, English and German - have played a prominent role in the history of global power. This history has emerged in imaginative ways to combine public and private power, sovereignty and property. The book will appeal to readers crossing conventional limits between international law, international relations, history of political thought, jurisprudence and legal history.

Contents:

Legal imagination in a Christian world : ruling France c. 1300

The political theology of jus gentium : the expansion of Spain 1524-1559

Italian lessons : ius gentium and reason of state

The rule of law : Grotius

Governing sovereignty : negotiating French "absolutism" in Europe 1625-1715

Reason, revolution, restoration : European public law 1715-1804

Colonies, companies, slaves. French dominium in the world 1627-1804

The law and economics of state-building : England c. 1450-c. 1650

"Giving law to the world" : England c. 1635-c.1830

Global law : ruling the British empire

A science of state-machines. Ius naturae et gentium as a German discipline c. 1500-1758

The end of natural law. German freedom, 1734-1821.

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ISBN:

9781139019774

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