Power, Law and the End of Privateering [electronic resource] /
Lemnitzer, J.author.
This book offers an exciting new take on the relationship between law and power. The 1856 Declaration of Paris marks the precise moment when international law became universal, and was an aggressive and successful British move to end privateering forever – then the United States' main weapon in case of war with Britain.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Power, Law and the Declaration of Paris; 1 'More Serious than the Eastern Question Itself' - The Crimean War Compromise; 2 The Crimean War and Maritime Law; 'The dawn of a better day in warfare': The new rules in practice; 'The total suppression of privateering': Britain and letters of marque; 'Recognized throughout the civilized world' - the US treaty campaign; 3 'Catching Brother Jonathan in the Trap which He Laid for Us' - The Genesis of the Declaration of Paris; The US proposal; The Congress of Paris
Justifications and expectations4 'That Moral League of Nations Against the United States' - The Declaration of Paris and the Marcy Amendment; 5 'The United States Have a Vote in Framing the Maritime Law of this Age' - The Cass Memorandum and Bremen's Campaign for the Marcy Amendment; The Cass Memorandum; The Bremen campaign; Cobden, coal and contraband; 6 The Declaration of Paris and the American Civil War; The Declaration of Paris and the North: Seward's scheme; The Declaration of Paris and the Confederacy: The end of privateering; Northern privateering?; Britain and the blockade
Britain and neutral rightsPart VI: The Declaration of Paris and the American Civil War: A case for reform?; 7 'Announcing Our Withdrawal from the Declaration' - The Declaration of Paris and the Franco-German War of 1870; The 1866 Austro-Prussian War: A precedent for the Marcy Amendment?; The French way of blockade; France's global war on German trade; Bismarck's challenge to the Declaration of Paris; Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of the Declaration of Paris; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book offers an exciting new take on the relationship between law and power. The 1856 Declaration of Paris marks the precise moment when international law became universal, and was an aggressive and successful British move to end privateering forever – then the United States' main weapon in case of war with Britain.
Political science.
Military history.
America-History.
Europe-History.
International relations.
World history.
Political Science.
History of Military.
History of the Americas.
European History.
International Relations.
World History, Global and Transnational History.