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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Invention of Good Government for the Law of Nations -- Good Government: A Renaissance Paradigm for the Eighteenth-Century State System -- Vattel the 'Constitutionalist' -- The End of an International Utopia -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Printed Books -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 2: Vattel's Droit des gens. A Transnational Bestseller from the Age of Enlightenment -- The Peace of Utrecht (1713) as the Premise for a New Europe -- The Consequences of Religious Peace: Legal Imperatives Towards Moral Imperatives |
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Morality and Trade after Passarowitz -- Vattel: Natural Law as a Moral Code for States -- Bibliography -- Archival Abbreviations -- Primary Sources -- Journals -- Printed Books -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 3: The Good Government: The Constituting and Constituted Nation -- What Is a Good Government? Theoretical Answers to an Ancient Question -- The Myth of Good Government and Its Impact on Modern Political Culture -- Vattel on Good Government: The Internal Constitution of State and the Constituting Power as Political Will -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Journals -- Printed Books |
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Secondary Sources -- Chapter 4: The First Reception: Sicily, Corsica and the Mediterranean Islands -- The Mediterranean and Vattel's Droit des gens: The Case of Sicily -- Insular Freedom Against the Continent: Vattel in Corsica -- The Interpretation of International Treaties -- Bibliography -- Archival Abbreviations -- Primary Sources -- Printed Books -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 5: The Great Crisis of the Sixties and the Political Reforms Between Piedmont and Tuscany -- Small and Medium-Sized States in the International Politics of the 1770s and 1780s -- From Maritime to Internal Policy |
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Tuscany as a Constitutional Laboratory -- "A Well Organised Society" -- Bibliography -- Archival Abbreviations -- Primary Sources -- Printed Books -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 6: The Lost Manuscript and the First Italian Translation of Vattel's Droit des gens -- The Tuscan Translation and Its Function -- The Translative Choices -- Naples in the Time of the League of Armed Neutrality -- Bibliography -- Archival Abbreviations -- Primary Sources -- Printed Books -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 7: The Consequences of the American Revolution: From Naples to Venice |
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From Dutch to Venetian Neutrality -- Legal Knowledge and the Renewal of Political Language -- The Genesis of Loschi's Translation and Its Editorial Context -- Loschi's Strategies: The Annotation and Choices of Translation -- Bibliography -- Archival Abbreviations -- Primary Sources -- Printed Books -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 8: Ships and Diamonds: Vattel Between Linguet and Casanova -- Liberty and the Balance of Trade -- Vattel Is Not Sufficient -- Casanova a Reader of Vattel? -- Judges and Mediators -- Bibliography -- Archival Abbreviations -- Primary Sources -- Printed Books |
| Summary |
This book explores the history of the international order in the eighteenth and nineteenth century through a new study of Emer de Vattels Droit des gens (1758). Drawing on unpublished sources from European archives and libraries, the book offers an in-depth account of the reception of Vattels chief work. Vattels 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 Vattels 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 |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 08, 2020) |
| Subject |
Vattel, Emer de, 1714-1767.
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Vattel, Emer de, 1714-1767. Droit des gens
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| SUBJECT |
Vattel, Emer de, 1714-1767 fast |
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Droit des gens (Vattel, Emer de) fast |
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International law.
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International law
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030480240 |
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3030480240 |
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