Sovereignty

European and Global Histories, 1400–1800

Cornel Zwierlein, Daniel Lee (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

430 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-21272-5 (ISBN)

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Early Modern ‘sovereignty’ arose as both a product of and a causal agent behind the establishment of European statehood. Beyond Bodin, Hobbes and Pufendorf, the volume also addresses the methodological challenges of studying early modern ´sovereignties´ from the Ottoman Empire to India and East Asia.

Was the emperor as sovereign allowed to seize the property of his subjects? Was this treated differently in late medieval Roman law vis-à-vis the theory and practice of zabt in Mughal India? How did political sovereignty relate to the church's powers and to trade? How about maritime sovereignty after Grotius? How was the East India Company as a ‘corporation’ interacting with an Indian Nawab? How did the shogunate negotiate ‘sovereignty’ in early modern Japan?

This volume addresses such questions through thoroughly researched historical case studies, covering the disciplines of History, Political Sciences, and Law.

Contributors: Nicholas Abbott, Tiraana Bains, Michael P. Breen, Sylvio Hermann De Franceschi, Philippe Denis, David Dyzenhaus, Andrew Fitzmaurice, Joshua Freed, Kajo Kubala, Daniel Lee, Fabrice Micallef, Kenneth Pennington, Mark Ravina, and Cornel Zwierlein.

Cornel Zwierlein has taught early modern history since 2001, holding Habilitation rights since 2011. He is a specialist in early modern European and global history, political theory, religion and law. Daniel Lee is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a specialist in political theory, the history of political thought, and jurisprudence.

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Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

1 Introduction

Cornel Zwierlein and Daniel Lee

Part 1: European Sovereignties

2 Sovereignty, the Prince, and Property Rights

Kenneth Pennington

3 Offering Sovereignty in Exchange for Assistance? The Appeal of the Dutch to Henry III of France (1584–1585)

Fabrice Micallef

4 Edmond Richer, Jean Bodin and the Idea of Sovereignty

Philippe Denis

5 Venetian Republicanism against the Roman Ambitions of Pontifical Theocracy — Sovereignty According to Paolo Sarpi: Political Theory and the Challenge of the Venetian Interdict Crisis (1606–1607) and Its Aftermath

Sylvio Hermann De Franceschi

6 Jurisdiction, Territory, Sovereignty: Giulio Pace and the Dominion of the Sea

Joshua Freed

7 Hobbes and the Healthy Sovereign

David Dyzenhaus

8 ‘Le prince doit avoir une autorité souveraine sur les mariages’: Annulments, Sovereignty, and the Law in Early Modern France

Michael P. Breen

9 Sovereignty and the Duties of Humanity: On Money, Barter, and Sale

Daniel Lee

Part 2: Global Sovereignties

10 ‘Company-states’ and Sovereignty

Andrew Fitzmaurice and Kajo Kubala

11 Zabt and Its Discontents: Property Confiscation, Patrimonial Kingship, and the Performance of Sovereignty in Mughal India, c.1600–1800

Nicholas Abbott

12 Unsettling Sovereignty between the Mughal and British Empires: the Case of the Nawab of Arcot, circa 1749–1795

Tiraana Bains

13 Sovereignty and Untranslatability: European International Law, France, the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States 1720–1740

Cornel Zwierlein

14 Who Was Sovereign in Early Modern Japan?

Mark Ravina

Index Locorum

Index Nominum

Index Rerum

Erscheinungsdatum	04.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Intersections ; 93
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	934 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	90-04-21272-8 / 9004212728
ISBN-13	978-90-04-21272-5 / 9789004212725
Zustand	Neuware