(Source: Springer)
Springer is publishing a book on
the significance of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens in political debate and the
conception of good government.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book explores the history of
the international order in the eighteenth and nineteenth century through a new
study of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens (1758). Drawing on
unpublished sources from European archives and libraries, the book offers an
in-depth account of the reception of Vattel’s chief work. Vattel’s focus on the
myth of good government became a strong argument for republicanism, the
survival of small states, drafting constitutions and reform projects and
fighting everyday battles for freedom in different geographical, linguistic and
social contexts. The book complicates the picture of Vattel’s enduring success
and usefulness, showing too how the work was published and translated to
criticize and denounce the dangerousness of these ideas. In doing so, it opens
up new avenues of research beyond histories of international law, political and
economic thought.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Antonio Trampus is
Professor of Modern History at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy. His
research focuses on cultural history and constitutionalism. His books include
the critical edition of Benjamin Constant’s commentary on Filangieri (2012) and
the edited volume, with K. Stapelbroek, of The Legacy of Vattel’s Droit
des gens (2019).
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