The Cambridge modern history. Vol. XII, The latest age / planned by the late Lord Acton ; edited by A.W. Ward, G.W. Prothero, Stanley Leathes.

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1910
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    CHAPTER XXII. HISTORY OF THE LAW OF NATIONS. There are not many works formally treating: of this topic. On the other hand, the regular text-books of international law contain historical matter which is more or less copious and accurate, according to the writer’s predilection and scholarship. A list of such books would be out of place here, but we may refer to the Marquis de Olivart’s Bibliographie du droit international, Paris, 1905 and 1907 (two parts published, a final one promised). This purports to note only works in the author’s own library, but we know of nothing approaching it in completeness. A concise bibliography is appended to the article on International Law in the Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England, 2nd edn., 1907. The following are (in order of publication) the only considerable works known to the writer which treat expressly of the origin and history of the law of nations, as distinct from its doctrinal exposition. Balch, T. W. L’evolution de l’arbitrage international. (Reprint from the Revue de droit international et de legislation comparee.) Philadelphia, 1908. [An English version of this work is promised.] Holland, T. E. Studies in International Law. Oxford, 1898. [Contains among other profitable matter the fullest account of Alberico Gentili and his work.] Hosack, J. The rise and growth of the law of nations, as established by general usage and by treaties. 1882. [A narrative purporting only “to describe generally the actual practice and usages of nations” down to the Treaty of Utrecht and deliberately excluding any reference to the growth of ideas, doctrine, and literature. The name of Grotius is not in the index.] Lapradelle, A. de, and Politis, N. Recueil des arbitrages internationaux. Preface de Louis Renault. Vol. i, 1798-1855. Paris. 1905. Moore, J. B. History and digest of the international arbitrations to which the United States has been a party. 6 vols. (Vol. vi consists of maps). Washington, D. C. 1898. [A most valuable repertory of facts and documents.] Nys, E. Les origines du droit international. Brussels and Paris. 1894. Walker, T. A. A history of the law of nations. Cambridge. 1899. Vol. i. (All published.) Ward, Robert. An enquiry into the foundation and history of the law of nations in Europe from the time of the Greeks and Romans to the age of Grotius. 1795. 2 vols. [Rather a rambling anecdotal collection of notes than a history.] Wheaton, H. History of the Law of Nations in Europe and America from the earliest times to the Treaty of Washington, 1842. New York. 1845.