Introduction Kimberly J. Morgan and Ann Shola Orloff
Part I. Locating the State: The Problem of Boundaries
1. Reconciling equal treatment with respect for individuality: associations in the symbiotic state Elisabeth Clemens
2. Beyond the hidden American state: rethinking government visibility Damon Mayrl and Sarah Quinn
3. States as a series of people exchanges Armando Lara-Millan
4. State metrology: the rating of sovereigns and the judgment of nations Marion Fourcade
Part II. Stratification and the Transformation of States
5. Gendered states made and remade: gendered labor policies in the US and Sweden, 1960-2010 Ann Shola Orloff
6. States and gender justice Mala Htun and S. Laurel Weldon
7. The civil rights states: how the American state develops itself Desmond King and Robert C. Lieberman
8. Disaggregating the racial state: activists, diplomats and the partial shift toward racial equality in Brazil Tianna S. Paschel
Part III. Developing the Sinews of Power
9. Democratic states of unexception: towards a new genealogy of the American political William J. Novak, Stephen W. Sawyer and James T. Sparrow
10. Performing order: an examination of the seemingly impossible task of subjugating large numbers of people, everywhere, all the time Christian Davenport
11. Fiscal forearms: taxation as the lifeblood of the modern liberal state Ajay K. Mehrotra
12. Unexpected adversaries: the state and the revolution in war Meyer Kestnbaum
Part IV. States and Empires: The Transnational/Global Turn
13. Imperial states and the age of discovery in transition(s) to modernity Julia Adams and Steve Pincus
14. Making legibility between colony and empire: translation, conflation, and the making of the Muslim state Iza Hussin
15. The octopus and the Hekatonkheire: on many-armed states and tentacular empires George Steinmentz.
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