The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History) 0231171862, 9780231171861

Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword
Editor’s Introduction
Part I. Stages
Preface
One. Sad Stories of the Death of Kings
Two. Contested Sovereignty
Three. Nurhaci’s Gambit
Four. The Living Image of the People
Part II. Courts
Preface
Five. Public Health, the State, and Religious Scholarship
Six. The Dancing Despot
Seven. Liberal Constitutionalism and the Sovereign Pardon
Eight. The Vanishing Slaves of Paris
Nine. Re-touching the Sovereign
Part III. Acts
Preface
Ten. Hijra and Exile
Eleven. The Neurology of Rigicide
Twelve. The “Millennium” of 1857
Thirteen. Exit the King?
Part IV. Shifts
Preface
Fourteen. Revolution in Permanence and the Fall of Popular Sovereignty
Fifteen. Exile Within Sovereignty
Sixteen. Affective Sovereignty, International Law, and China’s Legal Status in the Nineteenth Century
Seventeen. The Sovereignty of the New Man After Wagner
List of Contributors
Index

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