Resumen de Imagine there's no countries...
Before the late 18th century there were no real nation states, says John Breuilly of the London School of Economics. If people traveled across Europe, no one asked for their passport at borders; neither passports nor borders as they know them existed. People had ethnic and cultural identities, but these didn't really define the political entity they lived in. That goes back to the anthropology, and psychology, of humanity's earliest politics. They started as wandering, extended families, then formed larger bands of hunter-gatherers, and then, around 10,000 years ago, settled in fanning villages. Such alliances had adaptive advantages, as people cooperated to feed and defend themselves. Here, MacKenzie details how to organize a globalized world.
