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mods: Intervention and state sovereignty in Central Europe, 1500-1780 Milton, Patrick 1984- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk 2022 2022 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource : maps (black and white). Interventions in other states on behalf of their subject populations is often portrayed as a novel phenomenon in state practice, one which breaches the old principle of sovereignty. But is this practice really so new? This book argues that such interventions for the protection of other rulers' subjects occurred frequently as far back as the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. It is the first detailed study of interventions in the early modern period and focusses on central Europe, in particular the Holy Roman Empire. It therefore challenges the common view that in the period after the Peace of Westphalia (1648), the legal scope for and occurrence of intervention were reduced. The book sheds new light on the geopolitical and legal interconnections between the old German Reich and Europe, while also providing comparative insights. It investigates the norms inherent in central European interventions and thereby contributes to a better understanding of the political and legal culture of the Empire, while also assessing the relative importance of geopolitical considerations in such undertakings. Abbreviations -- Notes on the Text -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Legal Foundations: Imperial Constitutional Law and the Law of Nations and Nature -- PART ONE: EUROPEAN INTERVENTIONS IN CENTRAL EUROPE, c.1500-1780 -- 2. Interventions in Central Europe I: c.1500-1618 -- 3. Interventions in Central Europe II: 1618-1645 -- 4. Guarantees and Interventions: European Powers and the Empire, 1645-1780 -- PART TWO: INTERVENTION AS JUDICIAL EXECUTION WITHIN THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE -- 5. Interventions in Defence of Mediate Subjects: The Smallest Territories, c.1500-1780 -- 6. Intervention in Small Principalities: The Case of Nassau-Siegen, 16…