Description
Book SynopsisPeter H. Russell presents an accessible, historically-informed biography of the sovereignty claim, explores its limitations as well as ways of transcending them through the division of powers found within federal states.
Trade Review"It is wry, fast-moving and instructive…Sovereignty casts a bright light on platitudes that dominate official discourse on First Nations. The result is absorbing." -- Holly Doan *
Blacklock’s Reporter *
"Sovereignty: The Biography of a Claim provides a nuanced… approach to nation-state claims of sovereignty that serve as a useful contrast to Indigenous and emerging articulations of self-determination, thus underscoring the relationships at stake in such claims and the practices these claims foster." -- Jim Miranda, Bentley University *
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Table of Contents1. Introduction: Confronting the Claim to Sovereignty 2. Cannosa: Emperor and Pope Fight for It 3. Westphalia: The State Gets It 4. We the People Become Sovereign 5. Sovereignty as the Instrument of European Imperialism 6. Federalism Paves the Way for Removing Sovereignty’s Sting 7. Sovereignty Challenged Beyond and Within the State 8. Conclusion: Sharing Power Instead of Claiming Sovereignty
