Justice among Nations. A History of International Law - Stephen C. Neff

Bibliographic Essay 573

Press, 2008). See also Anthony Pagden, “Th e Struggle for Legitimacy and the Image of
Empire in the Atlantic to c. 1700,” in Nicholas Canny (ed.), Th e Origins of Empire:
British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, 34– 54 (Oxford
University Press, 1998); and Brian Slattery, “Paper Empires: Th e Legal Dimensions of
French and En glish Ventures in North America,” in John McLaren, A. R. Buck, and
Nancy E. Wright (eds.), Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies,
50– 78 (University of British Columbia Press, 2005). On the treatment of discovery in
En glish law and colonial practice, see Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt,
and Tracey Lindberg, Discovering Indigenous Lands: Th e Doctrine of Discovery in the
En glish Colonies (Oxford University Press, 2010), especially 9– 22.
On legal aspects of Eu ro pe an relations with American Indians, the leading work is
Robert A. Williams Jr., Th e American Indian in Western Legal Th ought: Th e Discourses
of Conquest (Oxford University Press, 1990). See also Dorothy V. Jones, License for
Empire: Colonialism by Treaty in Early America (University of Chicago Press, 1982);
Cynthia Van Zandt, Brothers among Nations: Th e Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in
Early America, 1580– 1660 (Oxford University Press, 2008); and Francis Paul Prucha,
American Indian Treaties: Th e History of a Po liti cal Anomaly (University of California
Press, 1997).
In comparison to the New World, there has been far less attention devoted to legal
aspects of the situation in the Indian Ocean world. Th e leading work in the fi eld con-
tinues to be C. H. Alexandrowicz, An Introduction to the History of the Law of Nations
in the East Indies (16th, 17th and 18th Centuries) (Oxford University Press (1967). See,
in addition, R. P. Anand, “Maritime Practice in South- East Asia until 1600 a.d. and
the Modern Law of the Sea,” 30 ICLQ 440– 54 (1981). On treaty relations between Eu-
ro pe an and Asian powers, see C. H. Alexandrowicz, “Treaty and Diplomatic Relations
between Eu ro pe an and South Asian Powers in the Seventeenth and Eigh teenth Cen-
turies,” 100 RdC 203– 322 (1960); and, more briefl y, Cornelis G. Roelofsen, “Treaties
between Eu ro pe an and Non- European Powers in Early Modern and Modern Times
(16th– 20th Centuries),” in Th ilo Marauhn and Heinhard Steiger (eds.), Universality
and Continuity in International Law, 409– 17 (Eleven International, 2011). On the de-
bate over freedom of the seas between Grotius and Freitas, see Alexandrowicz, Intro-
duction, 41– 71; and Monica Brito Vieira, “Mare Liberum vs. Mare Clausum: Grotius,
Freitas, and Selden’s Debate on Dominion over the Seas,” 64 J. Hist. Ideas 361– 77
(2003).

4. Putting Nature and Nations Asunder
   For a detailed study of the Congress of Westphalia, see Paul Sonnino, Mazarin’s
   Quest: Th e Congress of Westphalia and the Coming of the Fronde (Harvard University
   Press, 2008). On the substantive peace terms themselves, see Joachim Whaley, Ger-
   many and the Holy Roman Empire: From Maximilian I to the Peace of Westphalia
   1493 – 16 4 8 (Oxford University Press, 2012), vol. 1, 619– 31. For detailed analysis from a