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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 November 2014
      23 October 2014
      ISBN:
      9781139924306
      9781107076495
      9781107433663
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139924306
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.7kg, 400 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 400 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Legal History, History of Ideas, Law, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (107)
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    Subjects:
    Legal History, History of Ideas, Law, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (107)
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    This book analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century. Its geographical scope is global, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Poles. Andrew Fitzmaurice focuses upon the use of the law of occupation to justify and critique the appropriation of territory. He examines both discussions of occupation by theologians, philosophers and jurists, as well as its application by colonial publicists and settlers themselves. Beginning with the medieval revival of Roman law, this study reveals the evolution of arguments concerning the right to occupy through the School of Salamanca, the foundation of American colonies, seventeenth-century natural law theories, Enlightenment philosophers, eighteenth-century American colonies and the new American republic, writings of nineteenth-century jurists, debates over the carve up of Africa, twentieth-century discussions of the status of Polar territories, and the period of decolonisation.

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    'Occupancy, property, and the right and the power to possess are, as Andrew Fitzmaurice says at the beginning of his ambitious and compelling new book, the basis of all human societies and the foundations of all (Western) political thinking.'

    Anthony Pagden Source: The Journal of Modern History

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