Join us for this session of HM Online 2021: Jurisdictional Accumulation: A Book Discussion
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This panel will discuss Maïa Pal's recent book 'Jurisdictional Accumulation: an early modern history of law, empires, and capital' (CUP, 2020). The book is shortlisted for the 2021 Deutscher Prize
The 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 its concept of social property relations, the book goes beyond common binaries in both conventional and critical histories.The new concept of jurisdictional accumulation brings ambassadors,consuls, merchants, and lawyers out of the shadows of empire and ontothe main stage of the construction of early modern international relations and international law.
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Speakers:
Rob Knox (University of Liverpool, HM);
Heide Gerstenberger (University of Bremen, retired);
Guillaume Dufour (UQAM);
Mäia Pal (Oxford Brookes University, HM)
Demet Dinler (Chair)
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This event is co-sponsored by Historical Materialism and Haymarket Books. While all events for HM Online are free to register, the organizers ask comrades who are able to please consider making a donation, which would help enormously in covering the costs of putting together this programme of events. Like all left organisations, HM had a very tough period from the beginning of 2020 and our budgets are very stretched and bank balance is sinking all the time, with very little revenue coming in. If you can make a contribution to help keep us afloat, please don’t hesitate!
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