(Source: Springer)
Palgrave has published an edited collection on the legacy of Emmer de Vattel’s Droit des
gens.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This edited
collection offers a reassessment of the complicated legacy of Emer de Vattel’s
Droit des gens, first published in 1758. One of the most influential books in
the history of international law and a major reference point in the fields of
international relations theory and political thought, this book played a role
in the transformation of diplomatic practice in the eighteenth and nineteenth
century. But how did Vattel’s legacy take shape? The volume argues that the
enduring relevance of Vattel’s Droit des gens cannot be explained in terms of
doctrines and academic disciplines that formed in the late nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Instead, the chapters show how the complex reception of
this book took shape historically and why it had such a wide geographical and
disciplinary appeal until well into the twentieth century. The volume charts
its reception through translations, intellectual, ideological and political
appropriations as well as new practical usages, and explores Vattel’s
discursive and conceptual innovations. Drawing on a wide range of sources, such
as archive memoranda and diplomatic correspondences, this volume offers new
perspectives on the book’s historical contexts and cultures of reception,
moving past the usual approach of focusing primarily on the text. In doing so,
this edited collection forms a major contribution to this new direction of
study in intellectual history in general and Vattel’s Droit des gens in
particular.
ABOUT THE
EDITORS
Koen Stapelbroek is Associate Professor at
Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His research focuses on
intellectual history and political thought.
Antonio Trampus is Professor of Modern History
at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy. His research focuses on cultural
history and constitutionalism.
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