King Leopold's Ghostwriter (eBook)

The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century

Andrew Fitzmaurice (Autor)

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2021
592 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22036-9 (ISBN)

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A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free StateEminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (18091897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian Britain, and a close collaborator of Prince Metternich, the architect of the Concert of Europe. Yet Twiss's life was defined by two events that threatened to undermine the order that he had so stoutly defended: a notorious social scandal and the creation of the Congo Free State. In King Leopold's Ghostwriter, Andrew Fitzmaurice tells the incredible story of a man who, driven by personal events that transformed him from a reactionary to a reformer, rewrote and liberalised international lawyet did so in service of the most brutal regime of the colonial era.In an elaborate deception, Twiss and Pharailde van Lynseele, a Belgian prostitute, sought to reinvent her as a woman of suitably noble birth to be his wife. Their subterfuge collapsed when another former client publicly denounced van Lynseele. Disgraced, Twiss resigned his offices and the couple fled to Switzerland. But this failure set the stage for a second, successful act of re-creation. Twiss found new employment as the intellectual driving force of King Leopold of Belgium's efforts to have the Congo recognised as a new state under his personal authority. Drawing on extensive new archival research, King Leopold's Ghostwriter recounts Twiss's story as never before, including how his creation of a new legal personhood for the Congo was intimately related to the earlier invention of a new legal personhood for his wife.Combining gripping biography and penetrating intellectual history, King Leopold's Ghostwriter uncovers a dramatic, ambiguous life that has had lasting influence on international law.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 23 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Admiralty court • adultery • arson • Ashley Eden • Austrians • Awadh • Black Book of the Admiralty • blackmail • brothel • burlesque • cession • Constitutional Monarchy • courtesan • Criminal jurisdiction • Diocese • Diocese of Lincoln • Doctrine • Dominium • Downing Street • Droit • Dutch East India Company • Edinburgh Review • European balance of power • Extraterritoriality • Felbrigg Hall • feudalism • Frankfurt Parliament • Free City of Kraków • freedom of religion • French Revolution of 1848 • German Confederation • Governor-General • Great Power • Harold Laski • humiliation • hungarians • indictment • International African Association • International Association of the Congo • International Law • Invention • Italian unification • Joseph de Maistre • Jurisdiction • Legal Personality • Livorno • London Labour and the London Poor • Lord Chamberlain • marriage certificate • Marriage Law • massachusetts bay colony • Military organization • Nation • Nationality • natural person • Neutral country • Payment • petitioner • Political Philosophy • Pope Pius IX • professionalization • Prostitution • Protectorate • Publication • Public International Law • Radicals (UK) • Ranulf de Glanvill • regret • Republic • Reputation • rhetoric • Ruler • Sanskrit • Sedition • separation of church and state • Sermon • Shame • Slave and free states • Slavery • Solicitor • South London • Sovereignty • State (polity) • Statutory declaration • stipulation • Suez Canal Company • table manners • Temporal power (papal) • Thomas Hobbes • Tory • Travers Twiss • Treaty • Twenty Years After • Universal monarchy • Victorian Era • Wadiyar dynasty • West Africa • workhouse • World Peace • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22036-0 / 0691220360
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22036-9 / 9780691220369