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Sovereignty, property and empire, 1500-2000 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fitzmaurice, Andrew (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:Ideas in context ; 107.
Subjects:
International law > History.
Indigenous peoples > Legal status, laws, etc. > History.
Colonization > History.
Sovereignty > History.
Conquest, Right of > History.
LAW > International.
Colonization.
Conquest, Right of.
Indigenous peoples > Legal status, laws, etc.
International law.
Sovereignty.
Kolonialismus
Imperialismus
Landnahme
Eroberung
Völkerrecht
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Occupation from Roman law to Salamanca
  • The Salamanca school in England
  • Occupation and convention
  • Theories of occupation in the eighteenth century
  • The Seven Years War, land speculation and the American Revolution
  • Occupation in the nineteenth century
  • Res nullius and sovereignty
  • Territorium nullius and Africa
  • Terra nullius and the polar regions
  • Conclusion.