TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomson,Janice E.
TI  - Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns: State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe 
T2  - Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
SN  - 9780691025711
AV  - D210 
U1  - 355.3/5 
PY  - 1996///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Mercantile system
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Mercenary troops
KW  - Pirates
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Violence
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821242
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400821242
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