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Record Nr.

UNINA9910416087103321

Autore

Trampus Antonio

Titolo

Emer de Vattel and the Politics of Good Government [[electronic resource] ] : Constitutionalism, Small States and the International System / / by Antonio Trampus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-48024-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 pages)

Disciplina

341

Soggetti

Intellectual life - History

World politics

Law - History

Books - History

Intellectual Studies

Political History

European History

Legal History

History of the Book

Europe History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction: The Invention of Good Government for the Law of Nations -- 2 Vattel’s Droit des gens. A Transnational Bestseller from the Age of Enlightenment -- 3 The Good Government: The Constituting and Constituted Nation -- 4 The First Reception: Sicily, Corsica and the Mediterranean Islands -- 5 The Great Crisis of the Sixties and the Political Reforms Between Piedmont and Tuscany -- 6 The Lost Manuscript and the First Italian Translation of Vattel’s Droit des gens -- 7 The Consequences of the American Revolution: From Naples to Venice -- 8 Ships and Diamonds: Vattel Between Linguet and Casanova -- 9 From Natural Rights to the Rights of Man -- 10 Bern, the French Revolution and the Congress of Vienna -- 11 State and Nation: The Political Neutralisation of the Droit des gens in Nineteenth-Century



Europe -- 12 Conclusion: Vattel’s Droit des gens Between Good Government and Modern Democracy.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the history of the international order in the eighteenth and nineteenth century through a new study of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens (1758). Drawing on unpublished sources from European archives and libraries, the book offers an in-depth account of the reception of Vattel’s chief work. Vattel’s focus on the myth of good government became a strong argument for republicanism, the survival of small states, drafting constitutions and reform projects and fighting everyday battles for freedom in different geographical, linguistic and social contexts. The book complicates the picture of Vattel’s enduring success and usefulness, showing too how the work was published and translated to criticize and denounce the dangerousness of these ideas. In doing so, it opens up new avenues of research beyond histories of international law, political and economic thought.