The life and death of states : Central Europe and the transformation of modern sovereignty / Natasha Wheatley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheatley, Natasha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newly independent states--Europe, Central--History--20th century.

Europe, Central--International status.

Austria--Politics and government--1848-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 406 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Central Europe and the transformation of modern sovereignty

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order 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."-- Title details screen.

Contents:

Introduction : making a world of states

Constitution as archive : drafting the empire, 1848-1860s

The secret science of double sovereignty : 1867 and after

Fictional states : lands and nations

Pure theory : Jellinek and Kelsen reinvent legal philosophy

What is a new state? 1919 in the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

State birth at the frontier of knowledge : reimagining international law from post-imperial Vienna

Sovereignty in sequence : law, time, and decolonization

Conclusion the temporal life of states.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Wheatley, Natasha. Life and death of states

ISBN:

0-691-24408-1

OCLC:

1352870495