Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns

✍ Scribed by Janice E. Thomson

Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Leaves: 231
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Very comprehensive, this book is an attempt by the author to convince us that the nearly exclusive rights to violence contemporary states enjoy is a very new concept. Furthermore, he offers reasonable explanations as to why the change occurred.

My only criticism is that the first chapter is a tad bombastic, as the author clearly enjoys using high brow political science jargon to elucidate his thesis...nonetheless, as soon as you get into the actual history, you'll be hooked.

✦ Table of Contents

000_FrontMatter......Page 1
001_Chapter1......Page 13
002_Chapter2......Page 33
003_Chapter3......Page 55
004_Chapter4......Page 81
005_Chapter5......Page 119
006_Chapter6......Page 155
007_BackMatter......Page 167

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