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Savage Republic: de Indis of Hugo Grotius, Republicanism and Dutch Hegemony
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Savage Republic: de Indis of Hugo Grotius, Republicanism and Dutch Hegemony Within the Early Modern World-System (C. 1600-1619) Hardcover - 2008

by Eric Wilson


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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Intended for the professional academic and graduate student, this book is the first to utilize the methodology of a oeNew Streama legal scholarship in an extended critical a oeexegesisa of Hugo Grotiusa (TM) "De Indis" (c.1604-6). "De Indis" is predicated upon a two-fold discursive strategy: (i) investing a oeprivatea Trading Companies with a oepublica international legal personality, and (ii) collapsing the distinction between a oeprivatea and a oepublica warfare. Governing the operation of textual interpretation is "De Indis"a (TM) status as a republican treatise juridically legitimating an early modern Trans-National corporation (the VOC) that served as an agent of a a oeprimitivea system of global governance, the early Capitalist World-Economy. The application of New Stream scholarship reveals that the republican signature of "De Indis" consists of a discursive a oemicro-oscillationa between the a oethicka ontology of Late Scholasticism (a oeUtopiaa ) and the a oethina ontology of Civic Humanism (a oeApologya ) wholly appropriate to the governance requirements of the embryonic Modern World-System.

Details

  • Title Savage Republic: de Indis of Hugo Grotius, Republicanism and Dutch Hegemony Within the Early Modern World-System (C. 1600-1619)
  • Author Eric Wilson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 533
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill Nijhoff, Leiden
  • Date 2008-06
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9789004167889 / 9004167889
  • Weight 2.25 lbs (1.02 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.9 x 6.5 x 1.3 in (25.15 x 16.51 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Law Studies
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008015200
  • Dewey Decimal Code 341.1