Mercenaries, pirates, bandits and empires
Subtitle: private violence in historical context
By: edited by Alejandro Colás and Bryan Mabee
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780231702089
Notes: "The following book had its origins in a workshop entitled 'Pirates, Bandits, Mercenaries and Terrorists: Privatised Violence in Historical Context', held at Queen Mary, University of London on 23 May, 2008"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : private violence in historical context / Alejandro Colás and Bryan Mabee; title: Distinctions, distinctions : public and private force? / Patricia Owens; title: State and armed force in international context / Tarak Barkawi; title: Privateers of the North sea at worlds end : French privateers in Norwegian waters / Benjamin de Carvalho and Halvard Leira; title: The flow and ebb of private seaborne violence in global politics : lessons from the Atlantic world, 1689-1815 / Alejandro Colás and Bryan Mabee; title: Violent undertows : smuggling as dissent in nineteenth-century Southeast Asia / Eric Tagliacozzo; title: Tribes and warlords in southern Afghanistan, 1980-2005 / Antonio Giustozzi and Noor Ullah; title: The criminal-state symbiosis and the Yugoslav wars of succession / Kenneth Morrison; title: Private security companies in the Malacca Straits : mapping new patterns of security governance / Patrick Cullen; title: Securing the city : private security companies and non-state authority in global governance / Rita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams.