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.
Acknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors
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Introduction Cornel Zwierlein and Daniel Lee
Part 1: European Sovereignties
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Sovereignty, the Prince, and Property Rights Kenneth Pennington
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Offering Sovereignty in Exchange for Assistance? The Appeal of the Dutch to Henry III of France (1584–1585) Fabrice Micallef
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Edmond Richer, Jean Bodin and the Idea of Sovereignty Philippe Denis
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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
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Jurisdiction, Territory, Sovereignty: Giulio Pace and the Dominion of the Sea Joshua Freed
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Hobbes and the Healthy Sovereign David Dyzenhaus
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‘Le prince doit avoir une autorité souveraine sur les mariages’: Annulments, Sovereignty, and the Law in Early Modern France Michael P. Breen
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Sovereignty and the Duties of Humanity: On Money, Barter, and Sale Daniel Lee
Part 2: Global Sovereignties
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‘Company-states’ and Sovereignty Andrew Fitzmaurice and Kajo Kubala
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Zabt and Its Discontents: Property Confiscation, Patrimonial Kingship, and the Performance of Sovereignty in Mughal India, c.1600–1800 Nicholas Abbott
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Unsettling Sovereignty between the Mughal and British Empires: the Case of the Nawab of Arcot, circa 1749–1795 Tiraana Bains
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Sovereignty and Untranslatability: European International Law, France, the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States 1720–1740 Cornel Zwierlein
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Who Was Sovereign in Early Modern Japan? Mark Ravina
Index Locorum Index Nominum Index Rerum
Undergraduate and graduate teaching and research in European and Global History, Political Sciences, Legal and Church History. Keywords: Sovereignty, Republicanism, Gallicanism, Jean Bodin, Paolo Sarpi, Giulio Pace, Hugo Grotius, Edmond Richer, Thomas Hobbes, Samuel von Pufendorf, Marriage Law, East India Company, Zabt, Mughal India, Ottoman Empire, Shogunate, Early Modern Japan, Venice, France, England, Holy Roman Empire.