TY - BOOK TI - Rights and Civilizations : : a history and philosophy of International Law SN - 9781108565035 (ebook) : U1 - 341.09 PY - 2019/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - International law -- History N1 - Table of Contents : Part 1. Ius Gentium and the Origins of International Law Part 2. International Law and Western Civilization Part 3. International Law, Islam, and the Third World; Includes Glossary of Arab Terms and Index N2 - "Rights and Civilizations, translated from the Italian original, traces a history of international law to illustrate the origins of the Western colonial project and its attempts to civilize the non-European world. The book, ranging from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, explains how the West sought to justify its own colonial conquests through an ideology that revolved around the idea of its own assumed." UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108565035 ER -