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There is, I believe, a long period, measured not in centuries but in millennia—between the earliest appearance of states and lasting until perhaps only four centuries ago—that might be called a “golden age for barbarians” and for nonstate peoples in general. For much of this long epoch, the political enclosure movement represented by the modern nat
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Max Boot • Invisible Armies
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
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David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
It was sometimes asserted that Yamashita’s postwar execution for war crimes was unjustified, but the general was never even indicted for the systematic massacres of Chinese which took place at Singapore under his command. Yamashita once delivered a speech in which he asserted that, while his own people were descended from gods, Europeans were desce
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