Letters to "The Times" Upon War and Neutrality (1881-1909) With...
Holland, Thomas Erskine. Letters to "The Times" Upon War and Neutrality (1881-1909) With Some Commentary. London, New York, Longmans, Green, 1909. xi, 166 pp. Original purple cloth with gilt stamped spine, spine sunned. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Previous owner's signature, to front free endpaper. Ex-library with white location numbers to foot of spine, bookplate of the "Library of the San Francisco College for Women/ Gift of/ Joseph M. Gleason" to front pastedown. A good copy. $125. * A critical primary source for the evolution of international law during a transformative era of global conflict. This work compiles the expert correspondence of a preeminent British jurist who succeeded William Blackstone as Vinerian Reader at Oxford. Holland, a leading figure in analytical jurisprudence, famously described international law as the "vanishing point of jurisprudence," a perspective that informs his commentary on the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, and early efforts toward the codification of the laws of war. This volume covers essential legal themes including measures short of war, the rights and duties of neutral powers, and the conduct of warfare between belligerents. This remains an important work for collectors of legal history and 19th-century diplomacy. The ownership signature is that of distinguished American lawyer Irving Bedell Dudley (1861-1911), who also served as United States Minister to Peru, and later as United States Ambassador to Brazil. The front pastedown bears the bookplate of the distinguished historian and bibliophile Joseph M. Gleason (1869-1942). Gleason was a prominent Catholic priest, historian, and educator in California who amassed a significant library of over 100,000 volumes. His personal bookplate is notable for its pictorial design-depicting an elderly priest at a desk with a globe-and the motto "Tamdiu discendum est quamdiu vivas" (We should learn as long as we may live). Contents: Measures short of war for the settlement of international controversies; Steps towards the codification of the laws of war; The commencement of war; The conduct of warfare as between belligerents; The rights and duties of neutrals.
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