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Jan Martin Lemnitzer - Power, Law and the End of Privateering - 9780230301856 - V9780230301856
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Power, Law and the End of Privateering

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Description for Power, Law and the End of Privateering Hardcover. This book offers an exciting new take on the relationship between law and power. The 1856 Declaration of Paris marks the precise moment when international law became universal, and was an aggressive and successful British move to end privateering forever - then the United States' main weapon in case of war with Britain. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QS; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTM; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
This book offers an exciting new take on the relationship between law and power. The 1856 Declaration of Paris marks the precise moment when international law became universal, and was an aggressive and successful British move to end privateering forever – then the United States' main weapon in case of war with Britain.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230301856
SKU
V9780230301856
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Jan Martin Lemnitzer
Jan Martin Lemnitzer is Lecturer in History at Pembroke College, Oxford, UK. He obtained his PhD in International History from the London School Economics, UK, before winning a postdoctoral fellowship from the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London. Previously, he was Director of Studies at Oxford's Changing Character of War programme and taught at Christ Church, Oxford, ... Read more

Reviews for Power, Law and the End of Privateering
"Jan Lemnitzer has awakened the 1856 Declaration of Paris from a very long sleep, and what an awakening it is! The Declaration of Paris, issued at the end of the Crimean War, is the grandfather of all modern international law agreements on the conduct of war, and it had a direct influence on both the US Navy's blockade of the ... Read more

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