Author: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231171870 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 538
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What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual underpinnings. Using global intellectual history as a bridge between approaches, periods, and areas, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty deploys a comparative and theoretically rich conception of sovereignty to reconsider the different schemes on which it has been based or renewed, the public stages on which it is erected or destroyed, and the images and ideas on which it rests. The essays in The Scaffolding of Sovereignty reveal that sovereignty has always been supported, complemented, and enforced by a complex aesthetic and intellectual scaffolding. This collection takes a multidisciplinary approach to investigating the concept on a global scale, ranging from an account of a Manchu emperor building a mosque to a discussion of the continuing power of Lenin’s corpse, from an analysis of the death of kings in classical Greek tragedy to an exploration of the imagery of “the people” in the Age of Revolutions. Across seventeen chapters that closely study specific historical regimes and conflicts, the book’s contributors examine intersections of authority, power, theatricality, science and medicine, jurisdiction, rulership, human rights, scholarship, religious and popular ideas, and international legal thought that support or undermine different instances of sovereign power and its representations.
Author: Cornel Zwierlein Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004218629 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 431
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Was the emperor as sovereign allowed to seize the property of his subjects? Was this handled differently in late medieval Roman law and in the practice and theory of zabt in Mughal India? How is political sovereignty relating 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 was the Shogunate and the emperor negotiating ́sovereignty ́ in early modern Japan? The volume addresses such questions through thoroughly researched historical case studies, covering the disciplines of History, Political Sciences, and Law. Contributors include: Kenneth Pennington, Fabrice Micallef, Philippe Denis, Sylvio Hermann De Franceschi, Joshua Freed, David Dyzenhaus, Michael P. Breen, Daniel Lee, Andrew Fitzmaurice and Kajo Kubala, Nicholas Abbott, Tiraana Bains, Cornel Zwierlein, Mark Ravina.
Author: Gita V. Pai Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009150154 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 379
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Demonstrates how religious spaces are sites of contestation over sovereignty and broader debates about governance as they have been reconceived repeatedly.
Author: Janna Coomans Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110883177X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 351
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Explores how preventative health practices shaped urban communities, social ties and living environments in the medieval Low Countries.
Author: Yossi Shain Publisher: Wicked Son ISBN: 1642938467 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 371
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“The Israeli Century is one of the most important books of our generation, emphasizing how Israel is becoming the center of the Jewish People’s existence and is laying the solid foundations for its future.” —Isaac Herzog, President of Israel In this important breakthrough work, Yossi Shain takes us on a sweeping and surprising journey through the history of the Jewish people, from the destruction of the First Temple in the sixth century B.C.E. up to the modern era. Over the course of this long history, Jews have moved from a life of Diaspora, which ultimately led to destruction, to a prosperous existence in a thriving, independent nation state. The new power of Jewish sovereignty has echoed around the world and gives Israelis a new and significant role as influential global players. In the Israeli Century, the Jew is reborn, feeling a deep responsibility for his tradition and a natural connection to his homeland. A sense of having a home to return to allows him to travel the wider world and act with ease and confidence. In the Israeli Century, the Israeli Jew can fully express the strengths developed over many generations in the long period of wandering and exile. As a result, Shain argues, the burden of preserving the continuity of the Jewish people and defining its character is no longer the responsibility of Diaspora communities. Instead it now falls squarely on the shoulders of Israelis themselves. The challenges of Israeli sovereignty in turn require farsighted leaders with a clear-eyed understanding of the dangers that confront the Jewish future, as well as the incredible opportunities it offers.
Author: Radkris Publisher: PROSODY PRESS ISBN: 8192150992 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 461
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In a world where new technologies rise and fall by the hour, humanity is still plagued by the wanton inertia of its most fundamental institution – money. A messiah is born out of the zeitgeist and evangelizes an answer – cryptocurrencies. This is vehemently persecuted by the status quo and their blind zealots. SOVEREIGN, however, is one crypto that is rising above the smoke and noise, promising to lead the enlightened into a brave new world. But the incumbent power mongers refuse to go gentle into the night. Alexander Hamish, a bereft agent from FRONTIER – a covert, distributed network of spies operating at the intersection of technology, spy craft, and international interest – is tasked with SOVEREIGN’s destruction before its insidious promise of Utopian liberation becomes manifesto. Prejudiced, Hamish, better known in his world as Agent 27, embarks on the mission with a monomaniacal focus. 27 stumbles through a maze of double-edged technologies. With every step, his understanding of cryptocurrencies deepens while his grasp on society crumbles. He begins to question the very construct of the world around him – are governments a requisite for civilization, or is Man responsible for his own awakening? And just when the labyrinth’s exit is in sight, he confronts the daunting choice between saving the world and saving humanity’s one chance at salvation.
Author: Rae Gavin Rae Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 1474445314 Category : Biopolitics Languages : en Pages : 326
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Gavin Rae offers an original approach to sovereign violence by looking at a wide range of thinkers, which he organises into three models. Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Deleuze and Guattari form the radical-juridical perspective; Foucault and Agamben the biopolitical; Derrida the bio-juridical - which Rae argues produces the most nuanced account. Rae engages with new translations of 'The Beast and the Sovereign' and 'The Death Penalty' to show that Derrida offers a radical and alternative angle in which violence is placed between law and life, simultaneously creating and regulating each through the other.
Author: Bonnie Mann Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199981655 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 245
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Through examining practices of torture, extra-judicial assassination, and first person accounts of soldiers on the ground, Bonnie Mann develops a new theory of gender.
Author: Jewel L. Spangler Publisher: Fordham University Press ISBN: 0823288471 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 289
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North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s, marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This crisis wove together the three nation-states of modern North America from a patchwork of contested polities. Remaking North American Sovereignty brings together distinguished experts on the histories of Canada, indigenous peoples, Mexico, and the United States to re-evaluate this era of political transformation in light of the global turn in nineteenth-century historiography. They uncover the continental dimensions of the 1860s crisis that have been obscured by historical traditions that confine these conflicts within its national framework.
Author: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Author: Cornel Zwierlein
Author: Gita V. Pai
Author: Janna Coomans
Author: Yossi Shain
Author: Radkris
Author: Rae Gavin Rae
Author: Christian Jacob
Author: Bonnie Mann
Author: Jewel L. Spangler