2015/03/01 by M. Craven · 166 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies #Colonialism, slavery, and trade #Divergence (linguistics) #History #Law #Linguistics #Philosophy #Political science #Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/lril/lrv002
published in London Review of International Law 3(1), 31-59 (Oxford University Press)
openalex publication_date 2015/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03
The Berlin West Africa Conference of 1884-1885 has assumed a powerful symbolic presence in international legal accounts of the 19th century, but for historians of the era its importance has often been doubted. This article seeks to re-interpret the place of the Berlin General Act in late 19th-century history, suggesting that the divergence of views has arisen largely as a consequence of an inattentiveness to the place of systemic logics in legal regimes of this kind.