Rene Castellanos’s Reviews > Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1992 > Status Update

Pretty good. Unfortunate with the amount of new concepts and new rules and characteristics of states and cities— sort of hard to follow. Always with the “three essential characteristics of..” whatever the fuck. Does a good job of describing economic and political relations throughout history though when it does simplify things, so I am learning a bit.