Mercenaries Pirates Bandits and Empires: Private Violence in Historical Context - Hardcover

9780199327294: Mercenaries Pirates Bandits and Empires: Private Violence in Historical Context

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ISBN 10: 0199327297 ISBN 13: 9780199327294

Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR, 2010

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Cr�ticas:

"Each chapter is at once informative and engaging, broadening our comprehension of contemporary violence by historicizing and problematizing issues of force, territory, and authority."--Jamie Goodall, H-War

"A thought-provoking and refreshing collection of essays offering an important reminder that the 'new' is sometimes quite old and that distinctions such as public and private, states and markets, may be more a reflection of disciplinary and social hegemony than an actual organization of global power. This book should be required reading for all classes in international relations."--Ronnie D. Lipschutz, University of California, Santa Cruz

"Max Weber wrote about the monopoly of violence as one of the defining characteristics of modern states, but this has never been as absolute as the concept of monopoly implies. Ancient patterns of violence and the livelihoods they support never went away, especially on the edge of empire. As states weaken or fail, those patterns reemerge, often in partnership with more modern actors. Alejandro Colas and Bryan Mabee bring together a collection of essays that offers a fine-grained analysis of a multi-faceted phenomenon and will shape the thinking of students and policymakers alike."--Martin N. Murphy, author of Small Boats, Weak States, Dirty Money: Piracy and Maritime Terrorism in the Modern World and Somalia, The New Barbary? Piracy and Islam in the Horn of Africa

Rese�a del editor:

In a world dominated by nation-states, expressions of private violence have generally been neglected: either as relics of a more disorganised world or as marginal nuisances to states themselves. The prevalence and centrality of private violence in the past and present warns against such complacency. An increasing academic interest in "non-state" or private violence in International Relations has been mirrored in the world of policy as terrorists, insurgents, private military companies, and more recently pirates, have all become the focus of international security. Despite the increasing interest, the historical analysis of such actors has not been at a premium. This volume seeks to rectify this gap. Setting private violence in an historical context the contributors consider the development of private violence in time, as well as offering a comparative analysis of its unfolding across different geographical planes. The nine chapters that form the volume critically explore the lives of pirates, privateers, mercenaries, warlords, bandits and smugglers--groups of men (and occasionally women) that have sustained themselves and their kin principally through recourse to violence, but generally from outside or on the margins of public, state authority. They underline ways in which private violence acts both as a threat to existing forms of social order, and as a vehicle of empowerment for the established political authorities.

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