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Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns: State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe

Name: Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns: State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 9781400821242

By
- Janice E. Thomson
Publisher
- Princeton University Press

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Series: 63 of 65
Language: English
Format
Category: Non-Fiction

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.

Release date

Ebook: 22 July 1996