Politics and the histories of international law: the quest for knowledge and justice
What are the implications of writing the history of legal issues? Eighteen authors from different legal systems and backgrounds offer different answers, by examining the history writing on issues ranging from slavery over the use of force to extraterritorial jurisdiction. Contributions show how hist...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill Nijhoff
[2021]
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| Series: | Legal history library
volume 50 Studies in the history of international law volume 18 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/9789004461802 |
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| Online Access: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004461802 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig: https://brill.com/abstract/title/60075 Resolving-System, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004461802 
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| Author Notes: | edited by Raphael Schäfer and Anne Peters |
| Summary: | What are the implications of writing the history of legal issues? Eighteen authors from different legal systems and backgrounds offer different answers, by examining the history writing on issues ranging from slavery over the use of force to extraterritorial jurisdiction. Contributions show how historiography has often distorted or neglected regional cultures and suggest alternative methods and approaches to history writing. These studies are highly relevant for current international relations in which the fight over master narratives is especially fierce among governments, in different academic fields, and also between governments and academics |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9789004461802 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/9789004461802 |