The savage republic : De Indis of Hugo Grotius, republicanism, and Dutch hegemony within the early modern world system (c. 1600 -1619) / by Eric Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Eric Michael, 1961-

Series:

Nijhoff eBook titles 2008

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645. De Indis.

Grotius, Hugo.

Hegemony.

International law--Sources.

International law.

Colonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (548 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Intended for the professional academic and graduate student, this book is the first to utilize the methodology of “New Stream” legal scholarship in an extended critical “exegesis” of Hugo Grotius’ De Indis (c.1604-6). De Indis is predicated upon a two-fold discursive strategy: (i) investing “private” Trading Companies with “public” international legal personality, and (ii) collapsing the distinction between “private” and “public” warfare. Governing the operation of textual interpretation is De Indis ’ status as a republican treatise juridically legitimating an early modern Trans-National corporation (the VOC) that served as an agent of a “primitive” system of global governance, the early Capitalist World-Economy. The application of New Stream scholarship reveals that the republican signature of De Indis consists of a discursive “micro-oscillation” between the “thick” ontology of Late Scholasticism (“Utopia”) and the “thin” ontology of Civic Humanism (“Apology”) wholly appropriate to the governance requirements of the embryonic Modern World-System.

Contents:

The genealogy of Grotian morals : the Grotian heritage, natural law, and hegemony

'The force of law' : critical legal studies and deconstruction

Arche-trace (I)/Imperium : Holland as hegemon within the early modern world-system

Arche-trace (II) /Dominium : divisible sovereignty and the VOC as corporate sovereign

Trace (1)/Respublica: apologia and humanism

Trace (111): utopia and late scholasticism

'Concerning the Indies': Ius Naturale, privateers, pirates, and anti-systemic movements

'Concerning the Indians': Ius Naturale, infidels, and natives.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indices.

ISBN:

1-282-39924-1

9786612399244

90-474-3365-3

OCLC:

705386495

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004167889.i-534 DOI