Mercenaries, pirates, and sovereigns
Sovereignty
Mercenary troops
Geweld
Europe, politics and government
Pirates
Violence
Politique et gouvernement
Politics and government
History
"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. Tracing the a…
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