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Whiggish international law / Elihu Root, the Monroe doctrine, and international law in the Americas / by Christopher R. Rossi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rossi, Christopher R., author.
- Series:
- Legal History Library 29/12.
- Legal history library ; volume 29
- Studies in the history of international law ; volume 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International law--America--History--20th century.
- International law.
- Monroe doctrine--History--20th century.
- Monroe doctrine.
- International law--America--History--Historiography--20th century.
- Latin America--International status--History--20th century.
- Latin America.
- United States--Foreign relations--History--Latin America--20th century.
- United States.
- Root, Elihu, 1845-1937--Influence.
- Root, Elihu.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, 2019.
- Summary:
- International law’s turn to history in the Americas receives invigorated refreshment with Christopher Rossi’s adaptation of the insightful and inter-disciplinary teachings of the English School and Cambridge contextualists to problems of hemispheric methodology and historiography. Rossi sheds new light on abridgments of history and the propensity to construct and legitimize whiggish understandings of international law based on simplified tropes of liberal and postcolonial treatments of the Monroe Doctrine. Central to his story is the retelling of the Monroe Doctrine by its supreme early twentieth century interlocutor, Elihu Root and other like-minded internationalists. Rossi’s revival of whiggish international law cautions against the contemporary tendency to re-read history with both eyes cast on the ideological present as a justification for misperceived historical sequencing.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Cases and Treaties
- Reading International Law’s Historiographic Turn in Latin America
- The Birth of the Root Doctrine
- Pan-Americanism and Rehabilitated Monroeism
- The Monroe Doctrine and the Standard of Civilization
- The Central American Court of Justice and the Monroe Doctrine
- Conclusion
- Back Matter
- Selected Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-37951-7
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004379510 DOI
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