Jurisdictional Accumulation

An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital

Jurisdictional Accumulation
Maia Pal
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22 Oct 2020 UK
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9781108497206
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The majority of European early modern empires - the Castilian, French, Dutch, and English/British - developed practices of jurisdictional accumulation, distinguished by the three categories of extensions, transports, and transplants of authority. This book is concerned with various diplomatic and colonial agents which enabled the transports and transplants of sovereign authority. Through historical analyses of ambassadors and consuls in the Mediterranean based on primary and secondary material, and on the empires' Atlantic imperial expansions and conquests, the book makes a major analytical contribution to historical sociology. As an interdisciplinary exercise in conceptual innovation based on a Political Marxist framework and its concept of social property relations, the book goes beyond common binaries in both conventional and critical histories. The new concept of jurisdictional accumulation brings ambassadors, consuls, merchants, and lawyers out of the shadows of empire and onto the main stage of the construction of modern international relations and international law.
' Anyone seriously interested in the early modern state system should read and ponder Maia Pal' s stimulating new study. Theoretically aware, based upon extensive research and deep thought, tightly argued and notably well written, it challenges many established assumptions and proposes a new paradigm, along the way providing important insights on topics such as extra-territoriality and the development of the Westphalian international order. ' Hamish Scott, Senior Research Fellow in History, FBA, Jesus College, Oxford ' Maia Pal' s concept of jurisdictional accumulation, i. e. the development of actual practices of law, illuminates the shortcomings of conventional narratives of the history of international law. She convincingly demonstrates how much can be gained from making use of concepts of political economy for this analysis. ' Heide Gerstenberger, retired professor in Theory of State and Society, University of Bremen ' Maia Pal' s Jurisdictional Accumulation breaks new ground in the Historical Sociology of International Relations by providing an interdisciplinary, empirically rich, and theoretically sophisticated re-interpretation of the strategies of legal and mercantile sub-state actors in the formation of the institution of ' extra-territoriality' . Jurisdictional Accumulation is an ambitious intervention that fundamentally alters our understanding of early modern imperialism. ' Benno Teschke, Professor, Department of International Relations, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex ' Maia Pal' s work is astonishing in many respects. Firstly, it develops a definitively innovative genesis of early modern empires. Through the concept of jurisdictional accumulation, this topic is seen under new light. Another surprising and significant aspect comes from the application of a Marxist analytical framework to the research findings. All-in-all, a landmark piece of work. ' Joerg Ulbert, Universite Bretagne Sud, France
Maia Pal is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University.
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ISBN-13: 9781108497206
Published: 22 Oct 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Weight: 658g
Pages: 342

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