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

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

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Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns: State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe
Written by author Janice E. Thomson
Published by Princeton University Press, July 1996
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 ove
"Strike[s] at the heart of [the] assumption that a monopoly on violence is the hallmark of the state, ... [Thomson] is correct when she advises us that 'state' and 'sovereignty' are more mutable concepts than we might acknowledge or even admit. [A] major

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Acknowledgments
List of Tables
Introduction 3
Ch. 1 The State, Violence, and Sovereignty 7
The State and Violence in Theory 7
The State and Violence in History 10
Sovereignty in Theory 11
The Institution of Sovereignty 14
The Argument 18
Ch. 2 Nonstate Violence Unleashed 21
Privateering 22
Mercenaries 26
Mercantile Companies 32
Ch. 3 Unintended Consequences 43
The Mediterranean Corsairs 44
Organized Piracy 45
Problems with Mercenarism 54
Problems with Mercantile Companies 59
Ch. 4 Delegitimating State-Authorized Nonstate Violence 69
The Abolition of Privateering 69
The Delegitimation of Mercenarism 77
The Demise of the Mercantile Companies 97
Ch. 5 Suppressing Unauthorized Nonstate Violence 107
Piracy 107
The Rise and Decline of Filibustering 118
Ch. 6 Conclusion 143
Explaining the Transition 146
The State, Sovereignty, and World Politics 149
The Future 152
Notes 155
Bibliography 201
Index 215

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I read this book with one question, what is state? and it leads me to several questions about sovereignty, nation building and many other. According to Thomson, State building was materialized from something as banal as tribute, parley, and offerings. For mercenaries and pirates, their sovereignty goes to highest bidder. Capital talks. Extra economy activities bores them to dead. Chivalry and morality also bores them. They also gave straight up middle finger to ideology and even religion. For them, the sea, land and every soil on Earth are free for all. Being autonomous is the key here. They are more related within sense of survival and they play major role in early modern Colonialism and Age of Discovery. After reading this book, I might not be defining state building the same way again.

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	Acknowledgments
	List of Tables
	Introduction	3
Ch. 1	The State, Violence, and Sovereignty	7
	The State and Violence in Theory	7
	The State and Violence in History	10
	Sovereignty in Theory	11
	The Institution of Sovereignty	14
	The Argument	18
Ch. 2	Nonstate Violence Unleashed	21
	Privateering	22
	Mercenaries	26
	Mercantile Companies	32
Ch. 3	Unintended Consequences	43
	The Mediterranean Corsairs	44
	Organized Piracy	45
	Problems with Mercenarism	54
	Problems with Mercantile Companies	59
Ch. 4	Delegitimating State-Authorized Nonstate Violence	69
	The Abolition of Privateering	69
	The Delegitimation of Mercenarism	77
	The Demise of the Mercantile Companies	97
Ch. 5	Suppressing Unauthorized Nonstate Violence	107
	Piracy	107
	The Rise and Decline of Filibustering	118
Ch. 6	Conclusion	143
	Explaining the Transition	146
	The State, Sovereignty, and World Politics	149
	The Future	152
	Notes	155
	Bibliography	201
	Index	215