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

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.

Author: Janice E. Thomson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 08/11/1996
Pages: 230
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.04w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780691025711

About the Author
Janice E. Thomson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington.