Sovereignty, property and empire, 1500-2000 /
Fitzmaurice, Andrew,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Occupation from Roman law to Salamanca -- The Salamanca school in England -- Occupation and convention -- Theories of occupation in the eighteenth century -- The Seven Years War, land speculation and the American Revolution -- Occupation in the nineteenth century -- Res nullius and sovereignty -- Territorium nullius and Africa -- Terra nullius and the polar regions -- Conclusion.
International law
Indigenous peoples
Colonization
Sovereignty
Conquest, Right of