From the international to the global? -- Modernity, historicity, and epochal theory -- The international relations of capitalist modernity -- Absolutism, capitalism, and state formation in post-feudal Europe -- The international system of the Ancien Regime -- Incongruent spaces : national states and global accumulation -- Beyond the "territorial trap" : history, geography, and international transformation -- Governing global capitalism : towards imperium?
Summary
In this important book, Hannes Lacher offers a sustained critique and rethinking of the origins and significance of the modern state as it has been understood within contemporary historical materialism
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-202) and index
