Overview: In 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France at a price of approximately three cents per acre, dramatically altering the young nation's geography and its political future. President Thomas Jefferson had struggled for three years over th…
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" ... Frente a una concepción "estatista", y por ello "territorialista", de la que depende la Geopolítica, siempre expresión de la estrategia de las grandes potencias, el autor defiende el reconocimiento de la Geodierética, ciencia de la distribución racional del espacio, por el…
"The notion that a state that emerges victorious in war is entitled to claim sovereignty over conquered territory in virtue of military victory or conquest was a recognized principle of international law until the early years of this century. This study is an enquiry into the pl…
The nineteenth century marked the high point of imperialism, when tsarist Russia expanded to the Pacific and the sun was said never to set on the British Empire. Imperialism remains a perennial issue in international relations today, and nowhere is this more evident than in the …
North America, New Zealand and Australia were colonised by England under an international legal principle that is known today as the doctrine of discovery. This book analyzes how this doctrine was used to gain control over the indigenous peoples, and how this control continues t…
