{"product_id":"sovereignty-property-and-empire-15002000-107-ideas-in-context-series-number-107-9781107433663","title":"Sovereignty Property and Empire 15002000 107 Ideas in Context Series Number 107","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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. Fitzmaurice focuses upon the use of the law of occupation to justify and critique the appropriation of territory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements; 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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768982405463,"sku":"9781107433663","price":31.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781107433663.jpg?v=1758719248","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sovereignty-property-and-empire-15002000-107-ideas-in-context-series-number-107-9781107433663","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}