Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns:
State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe
Janice E. Thomson

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	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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