What is the State?
Tides of History
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The Verge, Reformation, Renaissance and Fifty S That Shook the World
The state seems both inevitable and universal. It has a monopoly on violence within those borders. In the age of the internet and mass surveillance, it's hard not to see the state impinging in some way on practically everything that happens in the spaces it claims. Historians who focus on the twentieth century see the spread of the western model of statehood to most of the planet.
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