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The Global Scope of Competitive Legalities in the Early 19th-Century South China Sea: The Topaz Incident.

This article examines the 1807 capture of the American merchant vessel Topaz by the British cutter HMS Diana in waters outside of Macau. By unearthing the full transnational context of this event, the article establishes the under-appreciated global scope of post-colonial American foreign policy as...

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Published in:European Journal of International Law Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 929 - 959
Main Authors: Kroncke, Jedidiah J, Li, Haimo
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Nov2024
Subjects:
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Aggressive driving
International law
War
International relations
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