Sublime

Il est devenu du jour au lendemain la première nation maritime du monde, il a acquis par son activité non seulement de nouvelles provinces mais même de véritables continents. Dix ans encore, et le plus petit État d’Europe pourra prétendre posséder et régir un territoire plus vaste que l’empire romain au temps de sa plus grande extension.

although warlords might claim possession of territory by conquest, they were unlikely to enjoy, in their new-won lands, the networks of élite client relations on whom secure rule depended. As late as the tenth century very powerful kings of Wessex struggled to engender loyalty among peoples recently ‘liberated’ from Viking control. There is a fine

A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of civility, an integrated cryptocurrency, a consensual government limited by a social smart contract, an archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories, a virtual capital, and a

As barbarians by definition, their traders may have been forced to queue at the entrance to the empire. Intriguing concentrations of finds from the Northumberland village of Great Whittington, just a mile or so north of the Wall, suggest that here was a sort of caravanserai where drovers, traders, petitioners, embassies and wannabe citizens had to

The frenzied search for the scarce remaining shares needed to make a majority for either the Morgan-Hill allies or the Harriman group now set off one of the wildest episodes the stock market has ever witnessed.

of gradual expansion fromthe acquisition of land and expansion of police and military presence to the establishment of full sovereignty.

most new developments occur from outside an industry.