Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Nations Without States: Class, Society and Geography in the World-System

Nations Without States: Class, Society and Geography in the World-System

Parry, Sam

Paperback

EconomicsGeneral European HistoryGeneral Political Science

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 19, 2027

ISBN10: 1837724059
ISBN13: 9781837724055
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: Jan 19 2027
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.00
Language: English

Offers a structural, long-term reinterpretation of Wales within the capitalist world-system.

Nations without States compares Wales' development with Catalonia, the Mezzogiorno, and Padania to show how internal differentiation emerges within modern states. Rejecting methodological nationalism, it examines how Wales was shaped by conquest, administrative centralization, resource extraction, dependency, and uneven development across centuries. By placing Wales in direct comparison with other stateless or structurally distinct regions, the book reveals how political tensions and cultural resilience reflect deeper world-systemic roles rather than anomalies of identity or local history. It traces how state formation, economic functions, regional power, and global cycles have produced divergent outcomes that persist into the present. Through an integrated analysis of political economy, territorial governance, and historical sociology, the book demonstrates that Wales's structural position--and those of comparative regions--reflects systemic imperatives that continue to shape autonomy debates, economic stagnation, and the contradictions of modern statehood.

Also in

Economics

View All