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

Janice E Thomson; Marc Trachtenberg; William Wohlforth
Princeton University Press
9780691025711
0-691-02571-1

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.

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violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.