Coinage of "the state"
 

Wengrow / Graeber: "Our term 'the state' only came into common usage in the late sixteenth century, when it was coined by a French lawyer named Jean Bodin"

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

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> created July 15, 2025 at 2:39:05 PM


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