H-Diplo Essay 503- Isabel V. Hull on Learning the Scholar's Craft
H-Diplo Essay 503
X-Post: Review of Possible Interest: Geyer on Pitts "Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire"
Jennifer Pitts. Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire.
Cambridge Harvard University Press, 2018. 293 pp. $45.00 (cloth),
ISBN 978-0-674-98081-5.
Reviewed by Michael Geyer (University of Chicago)
Published on H-Diplo (October, 2018)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
Empire and International Law
It is a categorical error to conceive of the global society of
nations as a European system of states writ large. The world is not
Europe; it never has been and never will be. Neither does the world
