Thomas Wentworth Higginson is little known today, but during his own lifetime his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of the pivotal social movements reshaping America for the nineteenth century and beyond. Born in Cambridge, he was a fervent abolitionist, running guns to anti-slavery settlers and financing John Brown's raid. During ...
In this book, Howard N. Meyer traces the World Court back to The Hague Conference of 1899 and shows its development through World War I, the League of Nations, World War II, and the Cold War, all the way up to the contemporary challenges of East Timor and Kosovo. More recently, Meyer distinguishes between the nation-state oriented work of the ...
Over a centry ago, a precursor to the International Court of Justice, usually called the World Court, was created. The US had an important role in founding the Court, and a US citizen - Andrew Carnegie - funded the Peace Palace, the building in which the World Court still convenes. However, in 1985, during the second Reagan-Bush administration, ...
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