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Author Amin, George Forji

Title International Law and the History of Resource Extraction in Africa Capital Accumulation and Underdevelopment, 1450-1918
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (284 p.)
Series Routledge Studies in African Development Series
Routledge Studies in African Development Series
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: The Third World and Nature of World Order -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 On the Causes of Underdevelopment -- 1.3 Might Makes Right: Sub-Saharan Africa, Property Rights, and the Resource Curse Thesis (RCT) -- 1.4 Application of the Doctrine of Property Rights in Africa -- 1.5 John Locke's Classical Conception of Property Rights and Dispossession -- 1.6 Trade, Africa, and International Law -- 1.7 Aim and Scope of the Study -- 1.8 Methods
1.8.1 Historical Materialism and Uniqueness of Marx -- 1.8.2 Marxist International Law and Questions of Imperialism -- 1.8.3 Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) -- 1.9 Outline and Structure -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: From Latin America to Africa: Primitive Accumulation, the Modality of Sub-Saharan Africa's Incorporation into the World Order -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 From the Americas to Africa: Original Accumulation, Political Economy, and the Gentle Development of the Law of Nations
2.2.1 European-Latin American Encounter and Articulation of Rights over Natural Resources -- 2.2.2 Towards Primitive Accumulation: Intersection of Political Economy and the Law of Nations -- 2.2.3 Sub-Saharan Africa's Involvement: Primitive Accumulation as Original Driver of Resource Curse -- 2.2.4 Structural Violence: Accumulation by Dispossession, Continuity by Renewed Accumulation -- 2.3 On the Question of Old European Imperialism, International Law, and Capital Accumulation -- 2.3.1 The Making of Unequal Rights: Primitive Accumulation as International Law's Secret
2.3.2 International Law as Bloody Legislation -- 2.3.3 The Agricultural Argument, International Law and Triangular Trade -- 2.4 Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: People as Property: The Transatlantic Slave Trade, International Law, and the Making of the New World -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Slavery and Slave Trade as Constructs: From Ancient to Capitalist Doctrines -- 3.2.1 Ancient and Medieval Doctrines on Slavery -- 3.2.1.1 Aristotle's Conception of Natural Slave and Born Rulers -- 3.2.1.2 Jus Gentium Doctrines on Slavery
3.2.2 The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Legality, and Capitalist Relations of Production (15th to 19th Centuries) -- 3.3 Historical Background and Manifestation of the Atlantic Slave Trade -- 3.3.1 Background -- Resistances and Conformity -- 3.3.2 Africa Prior to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and State of Economic Development: Historical Overview -- 3.4 Varying Slave Trade Practices: The Cases of Portugal, Spain, and England -- 3.4.1 The Portuguese Actions in Africa and Origins of Transatlantic Trade -- 3.4.2 Spain, Encomienda, Asiento, and African Slavery
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3.4.3 Virginia, African Enslavement, and Shifts in English Colonial Jurisprudence
Subject International law-History
Free trade-Africa, Sub-Saharan
Land tenure-Law and legislation-Africa, Sub-Saharan
Right of property-Africa, Sub-Saharan
Foreign trade regulation-Africa, Sub-Saharan
Slave trade-Africa
International law-Africa-History
Imperialism.
Sovereignty.
Africa-Colonization
sovereignty.
Imperialism.
International law.
Sovereignty.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000956498
1000956490