Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law (New)

Jurisdictional AccumulationAn Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital\nAuthor(s): Maa Pal\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108497206, 978-1108497206\nSynopsis\nThe majority of European early modern empires the Castilian, French, Dutch, and English/British developed practices of jurisdictional accumulation, distinguished by the three categories of extensions, transports, and transplants of authority. This book is concerned with various diplomatic and colonial agents which enabled the transports and transplants of sovereign authority. Through historical analyses of ambassadors and consuls in the Mediterranean based on primary and secondary material, and on the empires' Atlantic imperial expansions and conquests, the book makes a major analytical contribution to historical sociology. As an interdisciplinary exercise in conceptual innovation based on a Political Marxist framework and it.