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This book analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century. Its geographical scope is global, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Poles. Andrew Fitzmaurice focuses upon the use of the law of occupation to justify and critique the appropriation of territory. He examines both discussions of occupation by theologians, philosophers and jurists, as well as its application by colonial publicists and settlers themselves. Beginning with the medieval revival of Roman law, this study reveals the evolution of arguments concerning the right to occupy through the School of Salamanca, the foundation of American colonies, seventeenth-century natural law theories, Enlightenment philosophers, eighteenth-century American colonies and the new American republic, writings of nineteenth-century jurists, debates over the carve up of Africa, twentieth-century discussions of the status of Polar territories, and the period of decolonisation

Cover -- Inhalt -- 0. Vorwort -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Figuration|Formation A -- 3. Diskursive Brücke -- 4. Figuration|Formation B -- 5. Diskursive Brücke -- 6. Figuration|Formation C -- 7. Exkurs: Der amerikanische Sonderweg der Orifical Surgery (1887-1926) -- 8. Diskursive Brücke -- 9. Exkurs: Ovariektomie und Hysterektomie (1902-1940) -- 10. Figuration|Formation D -- 11. Die »frigide« Neurotikerin und die Psychoanalyse (1787-1947) -- 12. »Perfektionierte weibliche Körper« -- 13. Ein Schluss ohne Ende -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Index.

Kashmiri shawls serve as a material vector to trace how European assumptions of geographical determinism, racial hierarchy, and gender essentialism underpinned the seemingly disparate nineteenth-century narratives about design history and various theories about an "Asiatic mode of production" in labor history. The continuing strength of these assumptions is demonstrated by the contemporary marketing in 2001 of pashmina ("woven goat hair" or cashmere) shawls, using the recycled tropes of exoticism and fantasy ethnography crafted during the heyday of British colonialism.