TY  - JOUR
A1  - Koskenniemi, Martti
T1  - Histories of international law: dealing with eurocentrism
T2  - Rechtsgeschichte = Legal history
N2  - In The Gentle Civilizer of Nations, I suggested that international law began in the 1860’s as part of liberal entrenchment in Europe as the clouds of nationalism, racism and socialism were rising in the political horizon. It began as a project of practicalmen, attorneys and lawyers active in politics and parliament, and not out of philosophical contemplation or system-construction. University professors were involved, but these were professors of something that was seen more as a craft than a science. What they aimed at was to "civilize" the behaviour of their nations, but also the colonies, and to do this by coordinating liberal legislative reform in Europe, by supporting formal empire in the colonies, and by doing all this as part of a set of cosmopolitan legal projects they grouped into their "international law" (Droit international, diritto internazionale, Völkerrecht). ...
Y1  - 2011
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54559
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-545591
SN  - 1619-4993
SN  - 2195-9617
N1  - Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons cc-by-nc-nd 3.0
VL  - 19
SP  - 152
EP  - 176
PB  - Klostermann
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -