Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
1 Introduction
Cornel Zwierlein and Daniel Lee
Part 1: European Sovereignties
2 Sovereignty, the Prince, and Property Rights
Kenneth Pennington
3 Offering Sovereignty in Exchange for Assistance? The Appeal of the Dutch to Henry III of France (1584-1585)
Fabrice Micallef
4 Edmond Richer, Jean Bodin and the Idea of Sovereignty
Philippe Denis
5 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
6 Jurisdiction, Territory, Sovereignty: Giulio Pace and the Dominion of the Sea
Joshua Freed
7 Hobbes and the Healthy Sovereign
David Dyzenhaus
8 'Le prince doit avoir une autorité souveraine sur les mariages': Annulments, Sovereignty, and the Law in Early Modern France
Michael P. Breen
9 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
Index Locorum
Index Nominum
Index Rerum
