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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ; 63Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1994Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (230 p.) : 10 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691025711
  • 9781400821242
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.3/5
LOC classification:
  • D210
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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