Excerpt from The Recognition Policy of the United States IT will always be a great problem for the student of international law to determine the mutual relationships of law and policy. In the past, political considerations have invariably been of preponderating importance, and since this is due to the nature of the international system there is no indication that the future will bring any material change. It should be the task of the constructive publicist to estab lish and perfect the legal precepts which the practice of states has produced to prevent the purely political consider ations from maintaining unrestricted sway. This is best accomplished by first an objective analysis of international facts which may then be interpreted on the basis of sub jective thought. It is this latter process which strikes me as being of pre-eminent importance; it has puzzled writers and jurists from the time of Grotius to the present day, and satisfactory methods or solutions have never been found. This is due in large measure to historical tradition. Grotius and his immediatesuccessors sought on the basis of a law of nature a purely metaphysical interpretation of the facts of international existence, and the scheme of rights and obligations outlined by them has survived to the present day the most vigorous attacks of those who seek to demolish the natural law system. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Originally published by Hersch Lauterpacht in 1947, this book presents a detailed study of recognition in international law, examining its crucial significance in relation to statehood, governments and belligerency. The author develops a strong argument for positioning recognition within the context of international law, reacting against the widely accepted conception of it as an area of international politics. Numerous examples of the use of law and conscious adherence to legal principle in the practice of states are used to give weight to this perspective. This paperback re-issue in 2012 includes a newly commissioned Foreword by James Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.

Excerpt from The Recognition Policy of the United States It will always be a great problem for the student of international law to determine the mutual relationships of law and policy. In the past, political considerations have invariably been of preponderating importance, and since this is due to the nature of the international system there is no indication that the future will bring any material change. It should be the task of the constructive publicist to establish and perfect the legal precepts which the practice of states has produced to prevent the purely political considerations from maintaining unrestricted sway. This is best accomplished by first an objective analysis of international facts which may then be interpreted on the basis of subjective thought. It is this latter process which strikes me as being of preeminent importance; it has puzzled writers and jurists from the time of Grotius to the present day, and satisfactory methods or solutions have never been found. This is due in large measure to historical tradition. Grotius and his immediate successors sought on the basis of a law of nature a purely metaphysical interpretation of the facts of international existence, and the scheme of rights and obligations outlined by them has survived to the present day the most vigorous attacks of those who seek to demolish the natural law system. Realizing the fact that these concepts, in whatever form they may appear, are always with us, I have sought in the succeeding pages to give them a definite but limited place in the philosophical interpretation of the significance of recognition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Ireland's Request to the Government of the United States of America for Recognition as a Sovereign Independent State These principles were the fundamental ones in the program with which you, Sir, went before the Nation. They are embodied as a plank ln the platform Of the Democratic Party, adopted ln St. Louis m 1916, and were emphatically endorsed by the Ameri can people at the elections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.

Excerpt from Preliminary Statement to the Press of the United States None of the press bureaus in Europe has functioned without friction. None has been entirely successful in attaining its objects. We can not expect perfection from ours. All we can hope for is that the Committee on Public Information, while working out a satisfactory solution to the problem, will avoid the more obvious blunders of others. The staff to be employed will naturally be inexperienced in this work, and must acquire skill with practice. It will have to face problems one at a time, and work out definite rules from experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Professor Roger Stenson Clark has played a pivotal role in developing International Criminal Law, and the movement against nuclear weapons. He was one of the intellectual and moral fathers of the International Criminal Court. This Festschrift brings together forty-one appreciative friends to honour his remarkable contribution. The distinguished contributors provide incisive contributions ranging from the reform of the Security Council, to rule of law and international justice in Africa, to New Zealand cultural heritage, to customary international law in US courts, and more. Threaded through these richly diverse contributions is one common feature: a belief in values and morality in human conduct, and a passion for transformative use of law, ‘for the sake of present and future generations.’

Excerpt from Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States: For the Fiscal Year 1921 Sir: In accordance with the act of July 1, 1902, I have the honor to submit for transmission to Congress the following report of the operations of the Public Health Service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1921. This is the fiftieth annual report of the service covering the one hundred and twenty-third year of its existence. The administrative organization of the bureau on June 30, 1921, was as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Spain, Cuba, and the United States: Recognition and the Monroe Doctrine The United States, under all circumstances, have refused to intervene in the internal affairs of other nations. They have uniformly maintained the strict policy of non-intervention during the entire existence of the nation, thus following out the wise policy established by Washington under his beneficent administration. During this period, there have been great occasions to induce a departure from this policy of the Republic, especially when Spanish America was dismembered, and this people, following our example, renounced all political connection with Spain, and founded several sister republics. But, adhering firmly to our early policy, we maintained it during all these exciting struggles for free governments on this continent; and, in order to check a threatened intervention by allied Europe, being then encouraged by England, we announced the policy now known as the Monroe doctrine, which is, opposition to any European intervention in the affairs of America. Considering the weakness of the then United States, in 1823, it was a brave protest against the threatened action of the Holy Alliance, in reference to the affairs of the South American States, and, united to the attitude of England, it checked that threatened interference. Since that time, and while we were almost broken up by our late convulsion, France, England, and Spain invaded Mexico to compel redress of national grievances; but Spain and England immediately withdrew from Mexico when they discovered that Napoleon had other views, and had broken the Convention of London, upon which the intervention was founded. That intervention is too fresh to be narrated. It caused the disastrous attempt of Maximilian to found a monarchy upon Mexican soil, and the final withdrawal of the French, and his melancholy death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.