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Les Six Livres de la République

Jean Bodin · Jacques du Puys, Paris · 1576

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Jean Bodin
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2026-09-01
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Digitised copy is the 1577 Paris edition by Jacques du Puys; first edition 1576.

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DisputedThe view that the Peace of Westphalia (1648) founded the modern system of sovereign states is contested: Osiander argues that international relations judges current trends against an image of the 1648 settlement that is largely imaginary, a product of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fixation on sovereignty.