Of the Dominion, Or, Ownership of the Sea


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Hardcover reprint of the original 1652 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Selden, John. of The Dominion, Or, Ownership of The Sea Two Books. In The First Is Shew'D, That The Sea, By The Lavv of Nature, Or Nations, Is Not Common To All Men, But Capable of Private Dominion Or Proprietie, As Well As The Land. In The Second Is Proved, That The Dominion of The British Sea, Or That Which Incompasseth The Isle of Great Britain, Is, And Ever Hath Been, A Part Or Appendant of The Empire of That Island. Written At First In Latin, And Entituled, Mare Clausum Seu, De Dominio Maris, By John Selden Translated Into English; And Set Forth With Som Additional Evidences And Discourses. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Selden, John. of The Dominion, Or, Ownership of The Sea Two Books. In The First Is Shew'D, That The Sea, By The Lavv of Nature, Or Nations, Is Not Common To All Men, But Capable of Private Dominion Or Proprietie, As Well As The Land. In The Second Is Proved, That The Dominion of The British Sea, Or That Which Incompasseth The Isle of Great Britain, Is, And Ever Hath Been, A Part Or Appendant of The Empire of That Island. Written At First In Latin, And Entituled, Mare Clausum Seu, De Dominio Maris, By John Selden Translated Into English; And Set Forth With Som Additional Evidences And Discourses, . London, Printed By William Du-Gard, 1652. Subject: Maritime law







Early English Books, 1641-1700


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The Law of Nations


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Culture and Imperialism


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A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.




Cato's Letters


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Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'


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James Harrington's brief career as a political and historical theorist spans the last years of the Cromwellian Protectorate and the Restoration of 1660. This volume comprises the first and last of Harrington's writings. Harrington was the first theorist to interpret the English Civil Wars as a revolution, the result of a long-term process of social change which led to the decay of the old political order. The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) is a fictionalised presentation of English history up to the victory of the New Model Army, explaining the fall of the monarchy and proposing a republic to replace it. A System of Politics, written after the Restoration, is a scheme of history and political philosophy erected on the foundations of his previous works. Professor Pocock's introduction emphasises Harrington's place as a pivotal figure in the history of English political thought. This edition also contains a chronology of events in Harrington's life and a guide to further reading.