Passion and Ambivalence : Colonialism, Nationalism, and International Law.
Title:
Passion and Ambivalence : Colonialism, Nationalism, and International Law.
Author:
Berman, Nathaniel.
ISBN:
9789004210257
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (474 pages)
Series:
Studies in the History of International Law ; v.3
Studies in the History of International Law
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Preface -- A Critical Introduction -- Part One Empire and the International -- Chapter One In the Wake of Empire -- Chapter Two. Intervention in a "Divided World": Axes of Legitimacy -- Part Two Nationalist and Legal Passions: The Modernist Renewal of Internationalism -- Chapter Three. "But the Alternative is Despair": European Nationalism and the Modernist Renewal of International Law -- Chapter Four. Between "Alliance" and "Localization": Nationalism and the New Oscillationism -- Chapter Five. The Nationality Decrees Case, or, of Intimacy and Consent -- Chapter Six. Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism? Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, and "Peaceful Change" -- Part Three Of Law and Fantasy -- Chapter Seven. Nationalism "Good" and "Bad": The Vicissitudes of an Obsession -- Chapter Eight. Legalizing Jerusalem, or, of Law, Fantasy, and Faith -- Part Four Ambivalence and Power -- Chapter Nine. Imperial Ambivalences: Scenes from a Critical History of Internationalism -- Index of Names.
Abstract:
Tracing our current preoccupation with nationalist, ethnic, and religious conflict to the "cultural Modernist" revolutions of the early twentieth century, this volume draws on cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and psychoanalysis to offer a radical reinterpretation of contemporary international law's origins.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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