Jurisdictional Accumulation: A Book Discussion

Historical Materialism

Jurisdictional Accumulation: A book discussionRob Knox (University of Liverpool, HM); Heide Gerstenberger (University of Bremen, retired); Guillaume Dufour (UQAM); Maia Pal (Oxford Brookes University, HM) 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 PrizeThe majority of European early modern empires – the Castilian, French,Dutch, and English/British – developed practices of jurisdictional accu-mulation, distinguished by the three categories of extensions, transports,and transplants of authority. This book is concerned with various diplo-matic and colonial agents which enabled the transports and transplants of sovereign authority. Through historical analyses of ambassadors andconsuls 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 aninterdisciplinary exercise in conceptual innovation based on a PoliticalMarxist 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 relationsand international law.Chair Demet Dinler PLEASE NOTE: All events for HM Online are free to register, however we would ask comrades who are able to please consider making a donation, which would help us enormously in covering the costs of putting of this programme of events. Like all left organisations, HM has had a very tough period since 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 keep us afloat, please don’t hesitate! You can donate by selecting the 'donation' ticket type at registration.Once you have registered, a link to the live session will be emailed to you on the day of the event. For any technical queries please contact historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.ukPlease consider subscribing to the Historical Materialism journal, published by BRILL. www.brill.com/hima

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