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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.
Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more
than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities
interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes
they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan
Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley bring together
essays that challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the
nexus of two concepts-- "power" and "time"--as they manifest in a
wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics,
technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how
"temporal regimes" are constituted through the shaping of power in
historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen
essays on a wide variety of subjects: human rights; sovereignty;
Islamic, European, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism;
revolution; the Supreme Court; and even the Manson Family. Power
and Time will be an agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of
some of the world's most respected and innovative contemporary
historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of
history.
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