The life and death of states : Central Europe and the transformation of modern sovereignty / Natasha Wheatley.
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 pol...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Princeton scholarship online.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 406 pages) : maps (black and white). |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780691244082 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9780691244082 |