The Empire of Civil Society Spooky ‘You need this book

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The Empire of Civil Society Spooky ‘You need this book<i>The Empire of Civil Society < i>rejects outright the goal of theorising geopolitical systems in isolation from wider social structures. In a series of case studies including Classical Greece, Renaissance Italy and the Portuguese and Spanish empires Justin Rosenberg shows how his historical materialist analysis is a surer guide to understanding geopolitical systems than the supposedly timeless verities of realism. <br><br>Rosenberg demonstrates that