Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire

by Jennifer Pitts

It is commonly believed that international law originated in relations among European states that respected one another as free and equal. In fact, as Jennifer Pitts shows, international law was forged at least as much through Europeans' domineering relations with non-European states and empires, leaving a legacy still visible in the unequal structures of today's international order.

Pitts focuses on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674980816
• ISBN13: 9780674980815
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"