An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the
Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order
Sprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire
resisted all the standard theories of singular sovereignty. The
1848 revolutions sparked decades of heady constitutional
experimentation that pushed the very concept of “the state” to
its limits. This intricate multinational polity became a hothouse
for public law and legal philosophy and spawned ideas that still
shape our understanding of the sovereign state today. The Life and
Death of States traces the history of sovereignty over one hundred
tumultuous years, explaining how a regime of nation-states
theoretically equal under international law emerged from the ashes
of a dynastic empire. Natasha Wheatley shows how a new sort of
experimentation began when the First World War brought the Habsburg
Empire crashing down: the making of new states. Habsburg lands then
became a laboratory for postimperial sovereignty and a new
international order, and the results would echo through global
debates about decolonization for decades to come. Wheatley explores
how the Central European experience opens a unique perspective on a
pivotal legal fiction—the supposed juridical immortality of
states. A sweeping work of intellectual history, The Life and Death
of States offers a penetrating and original analysis of the
relationship between sovereignty and time, illustrating how the
many deaths and precarious lives of the region’s states expose
the tension between the law’s need for continuity and history’s
volatility.
General
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
June 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Natasha Wheatley
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
424 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-24407-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-691-24407-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780691244075 |
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