Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500–2000
Author:   Andrew Fitzmaurice (University of Sydney)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   107
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9781107433663


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   02 February 2017
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Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500–2000


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Author:   Andrew Fitzmaurice (University of Sydney)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   107
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781107433663


ISBN 10:   1107433665
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   02 February 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Occupation from Roman law to Salamanca; 3. The Salamanca School in England; 4. Occupation and convention; 5. Theories of occupation in the eighteenth century; 6. The Seven Years' War, land speculation and the American Revolution; 7. Occupation in the nineteenth century; 8. Res nullius and sovereignty; 9. Territorium nullius and Africa; 10. Terra nullius and the Polar regions; 11. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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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, The Journal of Modern History


Author Information

Andrew Fitzmaurice is Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Humanism and America: An Intellectual History of English Colonisation, 1500-1625 (Cambridge, 2003), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought (Cambridge, 2009).

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