New Arrival The Cambridge History of International Law, Volume 2: International Law in Asia

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The Cambridge History of International Law, Volume 2: International Law in Asia

Edited by Maria Adele Carrai · Surabhi Ranganathan
New Arrival Cambridge University Press June 2026

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ISBN-13
9781009100670
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
June 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Volume II of The Cambridge History of International Law breaks the mould of Eurocentric histories in the field by exploring international law in Asia from antiquity to decolonization. Its twenty-six chapters span a vast geography, covering both the landmass and the oceans; offering accounts of statecraft and diplomacy, war and trade; marriage and gift-giving; treaty-making and dispute settlement; ideas of the human and 'the other'; and entanglements of political authority with mercantile, corporate and religious orders.

The chapters introduce readers to a diverse cast of characters, from scholars, scientists, geographers, mapmakers; to traders, merchants, shipowners and entrepreneurs; and to women, revolutionaries, pirates, laborers, and monks. The volume explains leading historiographical trends, ponders the challenges of writing Asian histories of international law, highlights available materials and methods, and showcases the conceptual purchase of Asian histories for thinking about international law.

Table of Contents

Introduction: against the inequality of ignorance
Surabhi Ranganathan and Maria Adele Carrai

Part I. International Law in Ancient and Early Medieval Asia (c.
2000 BCE – 1300 CE):
1. 'International law' and interpolity relations in the early empires on the East Asian sub-continent
Robin D. S. Yates
2. International law in Ancient India: diplomacy, war, and trade
Patrick Olivelle and Timothy Lubin
3. The early medieval tradition of Eurasian diplomacy, sixth to tenth centuries
Jonathan Karam Skaff
4. The perception of the 'other' in early Daoxue Neo-Confucianism
Chang Woei Ong
5. Japanese foreign relations from the ninth to the fourteenth centuries
Wataru Enomoto
6. Gender, law, and conquest in East Asia under Mongol rule, thirteenth to fourteenth centuries
Bettine Birge
7. Mongol international law in the thirteenth century
Prajakti Kalra

Part II. International Law in Late Medieval and Early Modern Asia (1300–1800 CE):
8. The Mongol empire: in accordance with the Great Törö, 1200–1783
Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene
9. Authority and control in the maritime interactions between China and South Asia, 1200–1840
Tansen Sen
10. Warfare in medieval India, 1300–1800
Kaushik Roy
11. Maritime law and pre-Westphalian interpolity relations in coastal and island Southeast Asia
Jennifer L. Gaynor
12. South-East Asia and the arrival of European colonial powers, c.
1450–1800
Peter Borschberg
13. Territory, treaty relations, and mapping in late imperial East Asia
Nianshen Song
14. Inter-state diplomacy and imperial transitions in South Asia, circa 1750–1800
Tiraana Bains
15. Commercial dispute resolution among maritime merchants in Surat and Zanzibar, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Ghulam A. Nadri
16. Diplomacy through rituals in the Qing empire
James L. Hevia
17. War and the use of force in Qing China
Yingcong Dai

Part III. International Law in Modern Asia (1800–1950 CE)
18. Sovereignty in colonial South Asia
Priyasha Saksena
19. Strict liability and the state of exception to international law in 'semi-colonial' China, 1842–1911
Li Chen
20. The legacies of indenture for international law in Asia
Kalyani Ramnath
21. The concept of the territorial sea in modern Japan
Masaharu Yanagihara
22. From customary practice to international law: disputes and responses of Jiao merchants in East Asian trade, 1880–1905
Lin Yuju
23. Civilization, China and international law, 1840s–1940s: from seeking recognition to making contribution
Congyan Cai
24. Mediating an empire of laws: France and Vietnam, 1862–1954
Ann-Sofie Levidis
25. Pan-Asianism as an anti-imperial ideology and strategy
Mohammad Shahabuddin
26. Twentieth-century Indian historiography of ancient inter-polity law
Carl Landauer.
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