The Life and Death of States Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty【電子書籍】[ Natasha Wheatley ]
【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める!】<p><strong>An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order</strong></p> <p>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. <em>The Life and Death of States</em> 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.</p> <p>Natasha Wheatley shows how a new sort of experimentation began when the First World War brou...