Hidden History of International Law in the Americas: Empire and Legal Networks

by Juan Pablo Scarfi

International law has played a crucial role in the construction of imperial projects. Yet within the growing field of studies about the history of international law and empire, scholars have seldom considered this complicit relationship in the Americas. The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas offers the first exploration of the deployment of international law for the legitimization of U.S. ascendancy as an informal empire in Latin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190622342
• ISBN13: 9780190622343
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"