Bibliograph

Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns, State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe, Janice E. Thomson

Type

Label

Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns, State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe, Janice E. Thomson

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Janice E. Thomson

Series statement

Princeton Studies in International History and Politics

Sub title

State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe

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

Target audience

adult

Classification