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When #writers and readers think EMPIRE, they imagine an expansionist entity where the metropolitan controls the periphery through cultural dominance and a monopoly on violence. Those, sort of, existed. But then there was also like the Holy Roman Empire - a thousand principalities in a trench coat.

May 8, 2025, 2:30 PM

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