Globalising the geohistory of city/state relations: on 'Problematizing city/state relations: towards a geohistorical understanding of contemporary globalization' by Peter J Taylor

摘要

In a wide-ranging and complex paper, Peter Taylor (2007) explores the ways that city/state relations have been conceptualised and offers a new historical interpretation of city/state relations through six vignettes. Taylor explains that: Six examples have been chosen to put some flesh on the relatively abstract geohistory of modernity presented thus far ... In terms of economic and political elites, the vignettes [of city/state relations] represent the whole span of the geohistory . .. (2007,142).