The Sovereignty of the Sea

Name: The Sovereignty of the Sea
Author: Thomas Wemyss Fulton

by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

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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

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by MWS, Wayne Hammond and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2017-06-24

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Sea-power Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History Fisheries -- Great Britain Territorial waters -- Great Britain -- History

About the author

Thomas Wemyss Fulton

1855–1929

A Scottish fisheries expert and legal historian, he is best remembered for writing The Sovereignty of the Sea, a major early study of maritime claims and territorial waters. His work brought together science, policy, and history at a time when debates over fishing rights and control of the seas were especially important.

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