Xu Guoqi (Hong Kong University): The Great War and Asia’s great transformation Santanu Das (King’s College, London): Beyond nation and the Great War: Indian and trans-national intellectual responses to violence, 1914-1922 Erez Manela (Harvard University): Empires at War: The Great War as global conflict John Horne (Trinity College, Dublin): Empires and occupations: the global dynamics of the il...

Ancient Mesoamerican polities are an important source of data for considerations of state development, despite internal debate over their size and complexity. We review complex political units, usually referred to as “states” and “empires,” in ancient Mesoamerica and reach the following conclusions: these polities tended to be hegemonic, rather than territorial, in composition; they melded ritu...

Waves of War is destined to be influential— and controversial. This book examines nationalism, ethnic strife, and war. These topics are not only prominent in the headlines but also of interest to comparative historical sociology, political sociology, and macrosociology more generally. While the topics are familiar, this is a challenging book. Andreas Wimmer presents a novel theory, creates new ...