“…This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker's work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical, informational - that plagued imperial formations in the early modern period (1500-1800). …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Legislative property confiscation before the Civil War -- Radical property confiscation in the Thirty-seventh Congress -- The conservative assault on confiscation -- The moderate coup -- The Confederate Sequestration Act -- The ordeal of sequestration -- Civil War confiscation in the reconstruction supreme court -- The limits of sovereignty…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Signature event context -- Summary of "Reiterating the differences" -- Limited Inc a b c -- Afterword : toward an ethic of discussion…”

“…The problem of the limits of science is twofold. First, there is the problem of demarcation, i.e., the boundaries or "barriers" between what is science and what is not science. …”