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.

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Chapter 1 Introduction

Authors: Cornel Zwierlein and Daniel Lee
Pages: 1–36
Part 1 European Sovereignties
Chapter 2 Sovereignty, the Prince, and Property Rights

Author: Kenneth Pennington
Pages: 39–66
Chapter 3 Offering Sovereignty in Exchange for Assistance? The Appeal of the Dutch to Henry III of France (1584–1585)

Author: Fabrice Micallef
Pages: 67–87
Chapter 4 Edmond Richer, Jean Bodin and the Idea of Sovereignty

Author: Philippe Denis
Pages: 88–107
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
Pages: 108–130
Chapter 6 Jurisdiction, Territory, Sovereignty: Giulio Pace and the Dominion of the Sea

Author: Joshua Freed
Pages: 131–166
Chapter 7 Hobbes and the Healthy Sovereign

Author: David Dyzenhaus
Pages: 167–191
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
Pages: 192–213
Chapter 9 Sovereignty and the Duties of Humanity: On Money, Barter, and Sale

Author: Daniel Lee
Pages: 214–239
Part 2 Global Sovereignties
Chapter 10 ‘Company-states’ and Sovereignty

Authors: Andrew Fitzmaurice and Kajo Kubala
Pages: 243–269
Chapter 11 Zabt and Its Discontents: Property Confiscation, Patrimonial Kingship, and the Performance of Sovereignty in Mughal India, c.1600–1800

Author: Nicholas Abbott
Pages: 270–298
Chapter 12 Unsettling Sovereignty between the Mughal and British Empires: the Case of the Nawab of Arcot, circa 1749–1795

Author: Tiraana Bains
Pages: 299–317
Chapter 13 Sovereignty and Untranslatability: European International Law, France, the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States 1720–1740

Author: Cornel Zwierlein
Pages: 318–386
Chapter 14 Who Was Sovereign in Early Modern Japan?

Author: Mark Ravina
Pages: 387–398

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.