Cambridge University Press is
publishing an early modern history of law, empires and capital.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The majority of European early
modern empires – the Castilian, French, Dutch, and English/British – developed
practices of jurisdictional accumulation, distinguished by the three categories
of extensions, transports, and transplants of authority. This book is concerned
with various diplomatic and colonial agents which enabled the transports and transplants
of sovereign authority. Through historical analyses of ambassadors and consuls
in the Mediterranean based on primary and secondary material, and on the empires'
Atlantic imperial expansions and conquests, the book makes a major analytical
contribution to historical sociology. As an interdisciplinary exercise in
conceptual innovation based on a Political Marxist framework and its concept of
social property relations, the book goes beyond common binaries in both
conventional and critical histories. The new concept of jurisdictional
accumulation brings ambassadors, consuls, merchants, and lawyers out of the
shadows of empire and onto the main stage of the construction of modern
international relations and international law.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maïa Pal, Oxford Brookes
University
Maïa Pal is Senior Lecturer in
International Relations, Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes
University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Early Modern
Extraterritoriality
2. Historical sociology, Marxism,
and law
3. Social property relations
4. Ambassadors
5. Consuls
6. Colonial practices of
jurisdictional accumulation
7. Analytical crossroads:
Dominium, consuls, and extraterritoriality
8. Conclusion
Index.
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