Whiggish international law / Elihu Root, the Monroe doctrine, and international law in the Americas / by Christopher R. Rossi.
2019
KZ4116 .R67 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
Whiggish international law / Elihu Root, the Monroe doctrine, and international law in the Americas / by Christopher R. Rossi.
Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, [2019]
Description
xii, 271 pages ; 25 cm.
Series
Legal history library ; v. 29.
Legal history library. Studies in the history of international law ; v. 12.
Legal history library. Studies in the history of international law ; v. 12.
Formatted Contents Note
Reading international law's historiographic turn in Latin America
The birth of the Root doctrine
Pan-Americanism and rehabilitated Monroeism
The Monroe Doctrine and the standard of civilization
The Central American Court of Justice and the Monroe Doctrine
Conclusion.
The birth of the Root doctrine
Pan-Americanism and rehabilitated Monroeism
The Monroe Doctrine and the standard of civilization
The Central American Court of Justice and the Monroe Doctrine
Conclusion.
Summary
"International law's turn to history in the Americas receives...refreshment with [the author's] adaptation of the insightful and inter-disciplinary teachings of the English School and Cambridge contextualists to problems of hemispheric methodology and historiography. Rossi sheds new light on abridgments of history and the propensity to construct and legitimize whiggish understandings of international law based on simplified tropes of liberal and postcolonial treatments of the Monroe doctrine. Central to his story is the retelling of the Monroe doctrine by its supreme early twentieth century interlocutor, Elihu Root and other like-minded internationalists. [The author's] revival of whiggish international law cautions against the contemporary tendency to re-read history with both eyes cast on the ideological present as a justification for misperceived historical sequencing."-- Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-252) and indexes.
Call Number
KZ4116 .R67 2019
Language
English
ISBN
9789004389182 hardcover alkaline paper
9004389180 hardcover alkaline paper
9789004379510 (e-book)
9004389180 hardcover alkaline paper
9789004379510 (e-book)
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