Author: Inge Van HullePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Britain, West-Africa and the Formation of Imperial International Law (1807-1885)
Author: Inge Van HulleBritain and International Law in West Africa
Author: Inge Van HullePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192642588
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Africa often remains neglected in studies that discuss the historical relationship between international law and imperialism during the nineteenth century. When it does feature, focus tends to be on the Scramble for Africa, and the treaties concluded between European powers and African polities in which sovereignty and territory were ceded. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, Inge Van Hulle brings a fresh new perspective to this traditional narrative. She reviews the use and creation of legal instruments that expanded or delineated the boundaries between British jurisdiction and African communities in West Africa, and uncovers the practicality and flexibility with which international legal discourse was employed in imperial contexts. This legal experimentation went beyond treaties of cession, and also encompassed commercial treaties, the abolition of the slave trade, extraterritoriality, and the use of force. The book argues that, by the 1880s, the legal techniques that were fashioned in the language of international law in West Africa had largely developed their own substantive characteristics. Legal ordering was not done in reference to adjudication before Western courts or the writings of Western lawyers, but in reference to what was deemed politically expedient and practically feasible by imperial agents for the preservation of social peace, commercial interaction, and humanitarian agendas.
Experiments in International Adjudication
Author: Ignacio de la RasillaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108474942
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Examines many seminal experiments in international adjudication and the origins of several major existing international courts.
The Berlin West African Conference, 1884-1885
Author: Sybil Eyre CrowePublisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Sweden-Norway at the Berlin Conference 1884-85. History, National Identity-Making and Sweden's Relations with Africa
Author: David NilssonPublisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171067388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
"The image of Sweden is one of a small, democratic and peace-loving country without the moral burden of a colonial past. However, in this Current African Issues publication, the notion that Sweden lacks a colonial past in Africa is brought into question. At the Berlin Conference 1884-85, the rules for colonisation of Africa were agreed upon among a handful of white men. With the blessing of King Oscar II, the united kingdoms of Sweden-Norway participated in the Berlin conference, ratified the resulting convention and signed a trade agreement with King Leopold's International Congo Association. Thereafter, hundreds of Swedish militaries, seamen and missionaries took an active part in the brutal colonial project in the Congo. What was Sweden-Norway really doing at the Berlin Conference and in the ensuing Scramble for Africa ? Is it now time to re-assess Swedish identity in relation to Africa, an identity so far centered on colonial innocence ? Dr DAVID NILSSON is a researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His research focuses on global long term perspectives on sustainable development in Africa." -- Abstract.
Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires
Author: Prem PoddarPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748650970
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 847
Book Description
The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, G
The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism
Author: Lasse HeertenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107111803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804
Author: David EltisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521840686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
Africa's Development in Historical Perspective
Author: Emmanuel AkyeampongPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041155
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.
The Continental System
Author: Eli Filip HeckscherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Continental System (Economic blockade)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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