Nationals Abroad: Globalization, Individual Rights, and the Making of Modern International Law

by Christopher A. Casey

It is a fundamental term of the social contract that people trade allegiance for protection. In the nineteenth century, as millions of people made their way around the world, they entangled the world in web of allegiance that had enormous political consequences. Nationality was increasingly difficult to define. Just who was a national in a world where millions lived well beyond the borders of their sovereign state? As the nineteenth century gave way...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108489451
• ISBN13: 9781108489454
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"