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Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits and Empires - Private Violence in Historical Context (Paperback)
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Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits and Empires - Private Violence in Historical Context (Paperback)
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In a world dominated by nation-states, expressions of private
violence have generally been neglected: either as relics of a more
disorganised world or as marginal nuisances to states themselves.
The prevalence and centrality of private violence in the past and
present warns against such complacency. An increasing academic
interest in 'non-state' or private violence in International
Relations has been mirrored in the world of policy as terrorists,
insurgents, private military companies, and more recently pirates,
have all become the focus of international security. Despite the
increasing interest, the historical analysis of such actors has not
been at a premium. This volume seeks to rectify this gap. Setting
private violence in an historical context the contributors consider
the development of private violence in time, as well as offering a
comparative analysis of its unfolding across different geographical
planes. The nine chapters that form the volume critically explore
the lives of pirates, privateers, mercenaries, warlords, bandits
and smugglers - groups of men (and occasionally women) that have
sustained themselves and their kin principally through recourse to
violence, but generally from outside or on the margins of public,
state authority. They underline ways in which private violence acts
both as a threat to existing forms of social order, and as a
vehicle of empowerment for the established political authorities.
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