The Sovereignty of the Sea
An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters
The Sovereignty of the Sea, published in 1911, is Thomas Wemyss Fulton's history of the English claim to dominion over the seas around Britain and of the long dispute with other nations about it. Fulton, a marine scientist of the Scottish Fishery Board, traces the claim from its medieval origins through the Stuart demands that foreign ships strike their flags and pay for licenses to fish, the pamphlet war between Grotius's Mare Liberum and Selden's Mare Clausum, the wars with the Dutch, and the gradual retreat to the three-mile limit of territorial waters, with chapters on the salute to the flag, the fisheries and the modern law of the sea. The book remains a standard authority on the origins of maritime law. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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Is The Sovereignty of the Sea in the public domain?
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What kind of book is The Sovereignty of the Sea?
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