Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns : State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe / / Janice E. Thomson
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| Autore: |
Thomson Janice E.
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| Titolo: |
Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns : State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe / / Janice E. Thomson
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| 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 | |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-282-75191-3 |
| 9786612751912 | |
| 1-4008-2124-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814650303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Princeton Studies in International History and Politics