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09 October 2024

BOOK: Cornel ZWIERLEIN & Daniel LEE (eds.), Sovereignty. European and Global Histories, 1400-1800 [Intersections, ed. Karl A. E. ENENKEL] (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2025), XIV + 416 p. ISBN 9789004218628, €135,68

 

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Abstract:

Was the emperor as sovereign allowed to seize the property of his subjects? Was this handled differently in late medieval Roman law and in the practice and theory of zabt in Mughal India? How is political sovereignty relating 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 was the Shogunate and the emperor negotiating ´sovereignty´ in early modern Japan? The volume addresses such questions through thoroughly researched historical case studies, covering the disciplines of History, Political Sciences, and Law. Contributors include: Kenneth Pennington, Fabrice Micallef, Philippe Denis, Sylvio Hermann De Franceschi, Joshua Freed, David Dyzenhaus, Michael P. Breen, Daniel Lee, Andrew Fitzmaurice and Kajo Kubala, Nicholas Abbott, Tiraana Bains, Cornel Zwierlein, Mark Ravina.

Table of contents:


Introduction
Cornel Zwierlein and Daniel Lee

Part 1: European Sovereignties


Sovereignty, the Prince, and Property Rights
Kenneth Pennington

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

Edmond Richer, Jean Bodin and the Idea of Sovereignty
Philippe Denis

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

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

Hobbes and the Healthy Sovereign
David Dyzenhaus

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

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

 

On the editors:

Cornel Zwierlein is teaching 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. 

Read more: DOI 10.1163/9789004218628.

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