Author: James Brown ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and Their Relation to a More Perfect Society of Nations
Author: James Brown ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
America and the Law of Nations 1776-1939
Author: Mark W. JanisPublisher: OUP UK
ISBN: 0199579342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book narrates the important role that international law has played in America and the crucial if complex story of America's place in promoting and frustrating international law. Based on the stories of key figures in American history and written in an accessible style, it is a must read for anyone interested in America's place in the world.
Rewriting the History of the Law of Nations
Author: Paolo AmorosaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192589040
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In the interwar years, international lawyer James Brown Scott wrote a series of works on the history of his discipline. He made the case that the foundation of modern international law rested not, as most assumed, with the seventeenth-century Dutch thinker Hugo Grotius, but with sixteenth-century Spanish theologian Francisco de Vitoria. Far from being an antiquarian assertion, the Spanish origin narrative placed the inception of international law in the context of the discovery of America, rather than in the European wars of religion. The recognition of equal rights to the American natives by Vitoria was the pedigree on which Scott built a progressive international law, responsive to the rise of the United States as the leading global power and developments in international organization such as the creation of the League of Nations. This book describes the Spanish origin project in context, relying on Scott's biography, changes in the self-understanding of the international legal profession, as well as on larger social and political trends in US and global history. Keeping in mind Vitoria's persisting role as a key figure in the canon of international legal history, the book sheds light on the contingency of shared assumptions about the discipline and their unspoken implications. The legacy of the international law Scott developed for the American century is still with the profession today, in the shape of the normalization and de-politicization of rights language and of key concepts like equality and rule of law.
Bulletin of the Pan American Union
Author: Pan American UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Quarterly List of New Books
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Historical Outlook
Author: Bulletin
Author: Pan American UnionThe Periodical
Author: The Congress of the United States: a Bibliographical List
Author: Library of Congress. Division of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
American Treasures
Author: Stephen PuleoPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466872748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Stephen Puleo's American Treasures is a narrative history of America's secret efforts to hide its founding documents from Axis powers, and its national tradition of uniting to defend the definition of democracy. A Boston Globe Bestseller On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in. So FDR set about hiding the country's valuables. On the train speeding away from Neal sat four plain-wrapped cases containing the documentary history of American democracy: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and more, guarded by a battery of agents and bound for safekeeping in the nation's most impenetrable hiding place. American Treasures charts the little-known journeys of these American crown jewels. From the risky and audacious adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to our modern Fourth of July celebrations, American Treasures shows how the ideas captured in these documents underscore the nation's strengths and hopes, and embody its fundamental values of liberty and equality. Stephen Puleo weaves in exciting stories of freedom under fire - from the Declaration and Constitution smuggled out of Washington days before the British burned the capital in 1814, to their covert relocation during WWII - crafting a sweeping history of a nation united to preserve its definition of democracy.