The Cambridge history of international law. Volume II, International law in Asia / [edited by] Maria Adele Carrai, Surabhi Ranganathan

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carrai, Maria Adele, editor.

Ranganathan, Surabhi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law--Asia--History.

International law.

Asia.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations, maps

Other Title:

International law in Asia

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"Volume II of The Cambridge History of International Law breaks the mould of Eurocentric histories in the field by exploring international law in Asia from antiquity to decolonisation. Its twenty-six chapters span a vast geography, covering both the landmass and the oceans; offering accounts of statecraft and diplomacy, war and trade; marriage and gift-giving; treaty-making and dispute settlement; ideas of the human and 'the other'; and entanglements of political authority with mercantile, corporate and religious orders. The chapters introduce readers to a diverse cast of characters, from scholars, scientists, geographers, mapmakers; to traders, merchants, shipowners and entrepreneurs; and to women, revolutionaries, pirates, labourers, and monks. The volume explains leading historiographical trends, ponders the challenges of writing Asian histories of international law, highlights available materials and methods, and showcases the conceptual purchase of Asian histories for thinking about international law"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Introduction : against the inequality of ignorance / Surabhi Ranganathan and Maria Adele Carrai

“International law” and interpolity relations in the early empires on the East Asian sub-continent / Robin D. S. Yates

International law in ancient India : diplomacy, war, and trade / Patrick Olivelle and Timothy Lubin

The early medieval tradition of Eurasian diplomacy, sixth to tenth centuries / Jonathan Karam Skaff

The perception of the “other” in early Daoxue Neo-Confucianism / Chang Woei Ong

Japanese foreign relations from the ninth to the fourteenth centuries / Wataru Enomoto

Gender, law, and conquest in East Asia under Mongol rule, thirteenth to fourteenth centuries / Bettine Birge

Mongol international law in the thirteenth century / Prajakti Kalra

The Mongol empire : in accordance with the Great Törö, 1200-1783 / Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene

Authority and control in the maritime interactions between China and South Asia, 1200-1840 / Tansen Sen

Warfare in medieval India, 1300-1800 / Kaushik Roy

Maritime law and pre-Westphalian interpolity relations in coastal and island Southeast Asia / Jennifer L. Gaynor

South-East Asia and the arrival of European colonial powers, c. 1450-1800 / Peter Borschberg

Territory, treaty relations, and mapping in late imperial East Asia / Nianshen Song

Inter-state diplomacy and imperial transitions in South Asia, circa 1750-1800 / Tiraana Bains

Commercial dispute resolution among maritime merchants in Surat and Zanzibar, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Ghulam A. Nadri

Diplomacy through rituals in the Qing empire / James L. Hevia

War and the use of force in Qing China / Yingcong Dai

Sovereignty in colonial South Asia / Priyasha Saksena

Strict liability and the state of exception to international law in “semi-colonial” China, 1842-1911 / Li Chen

The legacies of indenture for international law in Asia / Kalyani Ramnath

The concept of the territorial sea in modern Japan / Masaharu Yanagihara

From customary practice to international law : disputes and responses of Jiao merchants in East Asian trade, 1880-1905 / Lin Yuju

Civilization, China and international law, 1840s-1940s : from seeking recognition to making contribution / Congyan Cai

Mediating an empire of laws : France and Vietnam, 1862-1954 / Ann-Sofie Levidis

Pan-Asianism as an anti-imperial ideology and strategy / Mohammad Shahabuddin

Twentieth-century Indian historiography of ancient inter-polity law / Carl Landauer

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed May 13, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Cambridge history of international law

ISBN:

9781009121972

1009121979

OCLC:

1572419859

Publisher Number:

CIPO000335723

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license