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Author Rossi, Christopher R., author.

Title Whiggish international law / Elihu Root, the Monroe doctrine, and international law in the Americas / by Christopher R. Rossi
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages)
Series Legal history library ; volume 29
Studies in the history of international law ; volume 12
Legal history library ; v. 29.
Legal history library. Studies in the history of international law ; v. 12.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 03, 2019)
Subject Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 -- Influence
SUBJECT Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 fast
Subject International law -- America -- History -- 20th century
Monroe doctrine -- History -- 20th century
International law -- America -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography
LAW -- International.
Diplomatic relations
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
International law
Monroe doctrine
SUBJECT Latin America -- International status -- History -- 20th century
United States -- Foreign relations -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century
Subject America
Latin America
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019004111
ISBN 9789004379510
9004379517