Alexander’s Reviews > The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change > Status Update

As reccomended by David Graeber! - who once lamented that there were not enough books like this being written.

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Been having alot of fun reading comparative histories recetly. It's a great way to 'isolate' historical factors of change. For Spruyt, it's bargaining between social groups that's key. For Tilly, it's war. For Skocpol, it's state relations and the role of peasantry. For Anderson, modes of extraction.