Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns : State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe.
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2001
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781400821242 140082124X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
