Arbitrating Empire

Auteur
Allison Powers is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Texte du rabat

Arbitrating Empire uncovers how ordinary people used arbitral claims commissions to challenge state violence across the United States Empire during the first decades of the twentieth century and why the State Department attempts to erase their efforts remade modern international law.

Contenu

• Introduction: The Subjects of International Law

• Part I: Dispossessions

• Chapter 1: Arbitrating Debt

• Chapter 2: Arbitrating War

• Chapter 3: Arbitrating Citizenship

• Part II: Exposures

• Chapter 4: The World's Easement

• Chapter 5: Dangerous Precedents

• Part III: Foreclosures

• Chapter 6: Sovereign Inequalities

• Chapter 7: The Specter of Compensation

• Conclusion: Life and Property