Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe

Name: Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe
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ISBN: 9780691025711

ISBN-10: 0691025711

ISBN-13: 9780691025711

Edition: 1996

Authors: Janice E. Thomson

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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.

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/11/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 230
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Tables


Introduction



The State, Violence, and Sovereignty


The State and Violence in Theory


The State and Violence in History


Sovereignty in Theory


The Institution of Sovereignty


The Argument



Nonstate Violence Unleashed


Privateering


Mercenaries


Mercantile Companies



UninTended Consequences


The Mediterranean Corsairs


Organized Piracy


Problems with Mercenarism


Problems with Mercantile Companies



Delegitimating State-Authorized Nonstate Violence


The Abolition of Privateering


The Delegitimation of Mercenarism


The Demise of the Mercantile Companies



Suppressing Unauthorized Nonstate Violence


Piracy


The Rise and Decline of Filibustering



Conclusion


Explaining the Transition


The State, Sovereignty, and World Politics


The Future


Notes


Bibliography


Index