State Formation Books
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States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 269 ratings — published 2000
The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning)
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avg rating 4.05 — 19 ratings — published 2013
War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 46 ratings — published 2005
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 16,483 ratings — published 1983
The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 162 ratings — published 1999
Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.19 — 43 ratings — published 2014
The Rise & Fall of the Judean State, Vol 1 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1962
Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937 (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007
Revolutionary Spirit: Jose Rizal in Southeast Asia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published 2011
The Struggle for Mastery: Britain, 1066 - 1284 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 281 ratings — published 2003
The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 89 ratings — published 2007
Post-Colonial Kenya (Contemporary African Politics)
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avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published
War and Genocide in South Sudan (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.97 — 30 ratings — published
How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
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avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published
Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 73 ratings — published
Unhappy Valley : Conflict in Kenya and Africa: Book One: State and Class (Eastern African Studies )
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avg rating 3.40 — 10 ratings — published 1992
Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean: Private Order and Public Institutions (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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avg rating 3.93 — 14 ratings — published
Ritual and Archaic States (ebook)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Two Houses of Israel: State Formation and the Origins of Pan-Israelite Identity (Archaeology and Biblical Studies 33)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
State Formation: Anthropological Perspectives (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
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avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2005
From House Societies to States: Early Political Organisation, From Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Societies (MAtAS))
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published
Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 56 ratings — published 2023
Im Namen des Staates : d. Begründung d. Staatsraison in d. frühen Neuzeit (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published 1987
Genoa's Freedom: Entrepreneurship, Republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Feuds and State Formation, 1550–1700: The Backcountry of the Republic of Genoa (Early Modern History: Society and Culture)
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avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published
The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 85 ratings — published 1978
The State: Its Nature, Development, and Prospects (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.24 — 42 ratings — published 1990
How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa before 1600 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.44 — 27 ratings — published 2004
The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy: Geography and the Diffusion of Political Institutions (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published
Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia Eurasian Parallels, Connections and Divergences (Rulers & Elites)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Latecomer State Formation: Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 17 ratings — published
The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 2016
Telangana Movemenet - State Formation [ ENGLISH MEDIUM ] (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 50 ratings — published
The Rural State: Making Comunidades, Campesinos, and Conflict in Peru's Central Sierra (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Kingship in the Early Mesopotamian Onomasticon 2800 - 2200 BCE (Studia Semitica Upsaliensia, 28)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.32 — 50 ratings — published
Maritime Trade And State Development In Early Southeast Asia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1985
War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 1652-89 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 30 ratings — published 2007
The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 41 ratings — published 1994
The Greek State (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2012
Caste: A Comparative Study (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 1950
State Formation in Italy and Greece: Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 1.00 — 1 rating — published 2011
Exchange Networks and Local Transformations (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2012
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 26,766 ratings — published 2021
Failed Statebuilding: Intervention, the State, and the Dynamics of Peace Formation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2014
Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-Modern States (Fundamental Issues in Archaeology)
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avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2007
Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published
The State and Social Change in Early Modern England, c.1550 - 1640 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 11 ratings — published 2000
“...what we are looking for is the appearance of political units persisting in time and fixed in space, the development of permanent, impersonal institutions, agreement on the need for authority which can give final judgments and acceptance of the idea that this authority should receive the basic loyalty of its subjects.”
― On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
― On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
