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Mar 2022
40m 59s

What is the State?

Wondery / Patrick Wyman
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The state - a centralized administration that exerts control over a territory and can coerce the people living there - is one of the driving forces of the last several thousand years of history. But when and where did states appear, and why? And can we really call all of the various forms of political control that emerged around the world “states?” We can’t ... Show More
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