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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.
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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.
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Jul 27, 2021 01:48PM
I'm reading Jean Elshtein's Sovereignty lectures atm and this is quoted every five pages! Might have to give a go!
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It's very good. It's such an interesting time period too - nestled between the end of the Roman and Carolingian empires, and before the consolidation of the European state system. There's alot of 'experimentation' with political form/organization that's all responding to similar historical contexts in varying ways. You get a real sense of the play of necessity and contingency in history.
