{"product_id":"9781614871880","title":"The Free Sea","description":"\u003cbr\u003eThe freedom of the oceans of the world and coastal waters has been a contentious issue in international law for the past four hundred years. The most influential argument in favor of freedom of navigation, trade, and fishing was that put forth by the Dutch theorist Hugo Grotius in his 1609 \u003cem\u003eMare Liberum\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Free Sea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e).\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Free Sea\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e was originally published in order to buttress Dutch claims of access to the lucrative markets of the East Indies. It had been composed as the twelfth chapter of a larger work, \u003cem\u003eDe Jure Praedae\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eCommentary on the Law of Prize and Booty\u003c\/em\u003e), which Grotius had written to defend the Dutch East India Company’s capture in 1603 of a rich Portuguese merchant ship in the Strait of Singapore.Liberty Fund’s new edition of \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Free Sea\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is the only translation of Grotius’s masterpiece undertaken in his own lifetime, left in manuscript by the English historian, Richard Hakluyt (1552–1616). It also contains William Welwod’s critique of Grotius (reprinted for the first time since the seventeenth century) and Grotius’s reply to Welwod. These documents provide an indispensable introduction to modern ideas of sovereignty and property as they emerged from the early-modern tradition of natural law.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHugo Grotius\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of the most important thinkers in the early-modern period. A great humanistic polymath—lawyer and legal theorist, diplomat and political philosopher, ecumenical activist and theologian—his work was seminal for modern natural law and influenced the moral, political, legal, and theological thought of the Enlightenment, from Hobbes, Pufendorf, and Locke to Rousseau and Kant, as well as America’s Founding leaders.\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Armitage \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ideological Origins of the British Empire \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Declaration of Independence: A Global History;\u003c\/i\u003e the editor of \u003ci\u003eTheories of Empire, 1450–1800;\u003c\/i\u003e and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe British Atlantic World, 1500–1800,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760–1840\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Hakluyt\u003c\/strong\u003e (d. 1616) was a geographer, editor, and translator of travel literature. \u003cstrong\u003eKnud Haakonssen\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Intellectual History and Director of the Centre for Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, England. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liberty Fund Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168228655344,"sku":"9781614871880","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781614871880_p0.jpg?v=1763850753","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781614871880","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}