Overview
- Reassesses the complicated legacy of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens, first published in 1758 but whose legacy endured until well into the twentieth century
- Explores how Vattel’s work shaped international law, international relations theory, political thought and diplomatic practice
- Takes a new approach to Vattel’s work and intellectual history more widely, investigating the complex reception history of the book and its historical context, beyond the text itself
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This edited collection offers a reassessment of the complicated legacy of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens, first published in 1758. One of the most influential books in the history of international law and a major reference point in the fields of international relations theory and political thought, this book played a role in the transformation of diplomatic practice in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. But how did Vattel’s legacy take shape? The volume argues that the enduring relevance of Vattel’s Droit des gens cannot be explained in terms of doctrines and academic disciplines that formed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Instead, the chapters show how the complex reception of this book took shape historically and why it had such a wide geographical and disciplinary appeal until well into the twentieth century. The volume charts its reception through translations, intellectual, ideological and political appropriations as well as new practical usages, and explores Vattel’s discursive and conceptual innovations. Drawing on a wide range of sources, such as archive memoranda and diplomatic correspondences, this volume offers new perspectives on the book’s historical contexts and cultures of reception, moving past the usual approach of focusing primarily on the text. In doing so, this edited collection forms a major contribution to this new direction of study in intellectual history in general and Vattel’s Droit des gens in particular.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Vattel’s Ideas and His Context
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The Reception of Vattel in Italy and Elsewhere
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Koen Stapelbroek is Associate Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His research focuses on intellectual history and political thought.
Antonio Trampus is Professor of Modern History at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy. His research focuses on cultural history and constitutionalism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens
Editors: Koen Stapelbroek, Antonio Trampus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23838-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23837-7Published: 24 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23840-7Published: 25 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23838-4Published: 13 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 296
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Intellectual Studies, Political History, Legal History, Diplomacy