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Lâle Can, Michael Christopher Low, Kent F. Schull and Robert Zens (eds.), The Subjects of Ottoman International Law, Indiana University Press, 2020, 282pp, $25.00, ISBN 9780253056610
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2021
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15 W. Hanley, ‘What Ottoman Nationality Was and Was Not’, in Can et al., supra note 4, at 74.
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17 L. Can, ‘The Protection Question: Central Asians and Extraterritoriality in the Late Ottoman Empire’, ibid., at 104.
18 F. Ahmed, ‘The British-Ottoman Cold War, c.1880-1914: Imperial Struggles over Muslim Mobility and Citizenship from Suez Canal to the Durand Line’, ibid., at 146.
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20 S. Fahrenthold, ‘“Claimed by Turkey as Subjects”: Ottoman Migrants Foreign Passports, and Syrian Nationality in the Americas, 1915-1925’, ibid., at 217.
21 To examine a similar rivalry in Africa see M. Minawi, The Ottoman Scramble for Africa (2016).
22 M. Aksakal, ‘Not “by those old books of international law, but only by war”: Ottoman Intellectuals on the Eve of the Great War’, (2004) 15(3) Diplomacy and Statecraft 507, at 516.
23 J. Stephens, ‘An Uncertain Inheritance: The Imperial Travels of Legal Migrants, from British India to Ottoman Iraq’, in Can et al., supra note 4, at 124; Fahrenthold, supra note 20.
24 M. Craven, ‘Introduction: International Law and its Histories’, in M. Craven, M. Fitzmaurice and M. Vogiatzi (eds.), Time, History and International Law (2007), at 7; R. Lesaffer, ‘Law and History: Law between Past and Present’, in S. Taekema and B. van Klink (eds.), Law and Method. Interdisciplinary Research into Law (2011), 133–52.
25 U. Özsu, ‘Afterword: Ottoman International Law?’, in Can et al., supra note 4, at 239.
26 M. Arvidsson and M. Bak McKenna, ‘The Turn to History in International Law and the Sources Doctrine: Critical Approaches and Methodological Imaginaries’, (2020) 33 Leiden Journal of International Law 37–56.
27 For an illustration on some of the monographs and edited volumes see M. Koskenniemi, The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870–1960 (2001); A. Anghie, Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law (2005); I. de la Rasilla, International Law and History: Modern Interfaces (2021); J. d’Aspremont (ed.), The History and Theory of International Law (2020). See further the Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d’histoire du droit international.