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Arbitrating empire : United States expansion and the transformation of international law / Allison Powers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powers, Allison, author.
- Series:
- Oxford legal history series.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford legal history series
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International and municipal law--United States.
- International and municipal law.
- Justice, Administration of--United States.
- Justice, Administration of.
- Government liability--United States.
- Government liability.
- International law--United States.
- International law.
- Arbitration (International law).
- United States--Foreign relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- 'Arbitrating Empire' uncovers how ordinary people used arbitral claims commissions to challenge state violence across the United States Empire during the first decades of the twentieth century and why the State Department attempts to erase their efforts remade modern international law.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series
- Arbitrating Empire
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Subjects of International Law
- Why Arbitration?
- Archival Erasures
- Map of the Book
- PART I: DISPOSSESSIONS
- 1. Arbitrating Debt
- Introduction
- Gilt Trips
- The Turn to Arbitration
- Alternatives
- Defining Dispossession
- Creating a Canon
- Conclusion
- 2. Arbitrating War
- Election Overthrown
- The Tridominium
- The Bombardment
- The Aftermath
- The Claims Commission
- 3. Arbitrating Citizenship
- A War for Law
- Foreclosing on Claims Debt
- The Laws of War
- Denaturalizing Claimants
- PART II: EXPOSURES
- 4. The World's Easement
- International Eminent Domain
- Depopulation
- Refusing Displacement
- The Joint Land Commissions
- 5. Dangerous Precedents
- Public Utilities
- Private Settlements
- The Right to Be Generous
- Arbitral Diplomacy
- Negotiating with Claims Debt
- PART III: FORECLOSURES
- 6. Sovereign Inequalities
- Return to Arbitration
- Fundamental Principles of International Law
- Denials of Justice
- Sovereign Inequalities
- Proving Grounds
- Arbitrating Accountability
- 7. The Specter of Compensation
- Hunt's Dilemma
- Denationalization
- Collapse
- Hull's Answer
- The Global Settlement
- Conclusion: Life and Property
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 16, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780190093037
- 019009303X
- 9780190093013
- 0190093013
- OCLC:
- 1442344661
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