Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns : State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe
(1996)
Nonfiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Princeton University Press, 1996
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781400821242 (electronic bk.) MWT14762346, 140082124X (electronic bk.) 14762346
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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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