637 3ca88913-ca0c-45da-975c-e41d64830dfc Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns: State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe Janice E. Thomson calibre (7.1.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com] 1996-07-21T22:00:00+00:00 <div> <p>The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.</p></div> Princeton University Press 9781400821242 eng piratecareintroduction