Présentation de l’éditeur

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.

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Chapter 1 Introduction
Authors: Cornel Zwierlein and Daniel Lee

Part 1 European Sovereignties

Chapter 2 Sovereignty, the Prince, and Property Rights
Author: Kenneth Pennington

Chapter 3 Offering Sovereignty in Exchange for Assistance? The Appeal of the Dutch to Henry III of France (1584–1585)
Author: Fabrice Micallef

Chapter 4 Edmond Richer, Jean Bodin and the Idea of Sovereignty
Author: Philippe Denis

Chapter 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
Author: Sylvio Hermann De Franceschi

Chapter 6 Jurisdiction, Territory, Sovereignty: Giulio Pace and the Dominion of the Sea
Author: Joshua Freed

Chapter 7 Hobbes and the Healthy Sovereign
Author: David Dyzenhaus

Chapter 8 ‘Le prince doit avoir une autorité souveraine sur les mariages’: Annulments, Sovereignty, and the Law in Early Modern France
Author: Michael P. Breen

Chapter 9 Sovereignty and the Duties of Humanity: On Money, Barter, and Sale
Author: Daniel Lee

Part 2 Global Sovereignties

Chapter 10 ‘Company-states’ and Sovereignty
Authors: Andrew Fitzmaurice and Kajo Kubala

Chapter 11 Zabt and Its Discontents: Property Confiscation, Patrimonial Kingship, and the Performance of Sovereignty in Mughal India, c.1600–1800
Author: Nicholas Abbott

Chapter 12 Unsettling Sovereignty between the Mughal and British Empires: the Case of the Nawab of Arcot, circa 1749–1795
Author: Tiraana Bains

Chapter 13 Sovereignty and Untranslatability: European International Law, France, the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States 1720–1740
Author: Cornel Zwierlein

Chapter 14 Who Was Sovereign in Early Modern Japan?
Author: Mark Ravina