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Revolutions in Sovereignty : How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations
How did the world come to be organized into sovereign states? Daniel Philpott argues that two historical revolutions in ideas are responsible. First, the Protestant Reformation ended medieval Christendom and brought a system of sovereign states in Europe, culminating at the Peace of Westphalia in 16...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; contents; tables and figures; preface; part one: revolutions in sovereignty; one: introduction: revolutions in sovereignty; two: the constitution of international society; three: a brief history of constitutions of international society in the west; four: how revolutions in ideas bring revolutions in sovereignty; part two: the founding of the sovereign states system at westphalia; five: westphalia as origin; six: the origin of westphalia; seven: the power of protestant propositions; part three: the revolution of colonial independence: the global expansion of westphalia.
- Eight: ideas and the end of empirenine: the end of the british empire: cashing out the promise of self-government; ten: revolutionary ideas in the british colonies; eleven: britain's burden of empire; twelve: the fall of greater france; part four: the revolutions considered together; thirteen: conclusion: two revolutions, one movement; notes; bibliography; index.