(Source: Brill)
Brill has
published a new book on the history of international law in the Americas during
the end of the 19th century-early 20th century.
ABOUT THE BOOK
International
law’s turn to history in the Americas receives invigorated refreshment with
Christopher Rossi’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. Rossi’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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christopher
R. Rossi teaches international law at the
University of Iowa College of Law. He is the author ofEquity and
International Law (Transnational), Broken Chain of Being:
James Brown Scott and the Origins of Modern International Law (Kluwer),
and Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation (Cambridge).
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Reading
International Law’s Historiographic Turn in Latin America
Pages: 1–57
The Birth of the
Root Doctrine
Pages: 58–92
Pan-Americanism
and Rehabilitated Monroeism
Pages: 93–122
The Monroe
Doctrine and the Standard of Civilization
Pages: 123–152
The Central
American Court of Justice and the Monroe Doctrine
Pages: 153–191
Conclusion
Pages: 192–204
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