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Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns : State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe / / Janice E. Thomson



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Autore: Thomson Janice E. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns : State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe / / Janice E. Thomson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [1996]
©1994
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
Disciplina: 355.3/5
Soggetto topico: Europe -- Politics and government
Mercantile system -- Europe -- History
Mercenary troops -- Europe -- History
Pirates -- Europe -- History
Sovereignty
Violence -- Europe -- History
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Tables -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. The State, Violence, and Sovereignty -- CHAPTER TWO. Nonstate Violence Unleashed -- CHAPTER THREE. Unintended Consequences -- CHAPTER FOUR. Delegitimating State-Authorized Nonstate Violence -- CHAPTER FIVE. Suppressing Unauthorized Nonstate Violence -- CHAPTER SIX. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.
Titolo autorizzato: Mercenaries , pirates , and sovereigns  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-75191-3
9786612751912
1-4008-2124-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910454749503321
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Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics