Revolutions in sovereignty : how ideas shaped modern international relations / 
Daniel Philpott. 
 - Princeton :  Princeton University Press,  2001. 
 - xii, 339 pages :  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical  references and index. 
<br/><br/>Contents : Part one : Revolutions in sovereignty : Introduction : revolutions in sovereignty -- The constitution of international society -- A brief history of constitutions of international society in the west -- How revolutions in ideas bring revolutions in sovereignty -- Part two<br/>: The founding of the sovereign states system at Westphalia : Westphalia as origin -- The origin of Westphalia -- The power of protestant propositions -- Part three : The revolution of colonial independence : the global expansion of Westphalia : Ideas and the end of empire -- The end of the British empire : crashing out the promise of self-government -- Revolutionary idea in the British colonies -- Britain's burden of empire -- The fall of greater France -- Part four : The revolutions considered together : Conclusion : two revolutions, one movement. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691057477 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JZ4038.P48