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Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns: State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe - Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Janice E. Thomson
Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns: State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe - Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
Janice E. Thomson
Argues that the contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural; it is distinctively modern. This book examines how the arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.
230 pages, 10 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 11, 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691025711 |
| Publishers | Princeton University Press |
| Pages | 230 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 234 × 15 mm · 362 g |
| Language | English |