Books:

Abu-Lughod. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 (1989);

Amin. Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx's Law of Value (2018);

Anderson P. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (1974);

Arrighi. Geometry of Imperialism (1978);

Chase-Dunn. The Historical Evolution of World-Systems (2005);

     -     Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (2006);

     -     BRICS and the New American Imperialism: Global Rivalry and Resistance (2020);

Eisenstadt. The Political Systems of Empires (1963);

Giddens. A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism, 2 vols. (1981, 1985);

Giddings. Democracy and Empire (1900);

Grinin. „The Early State and its Analogues”, in Social Evolution & History (2004a);

     -    The Evolution of Statehood: From Early States to Global Society (2011);

Hobsbawm. Industry and Empire (1968);

     -     The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 (1987);

James C. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938);

Mann. Incoherent Empire (2003);

     -     The Sources of Social Power, Volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945 (2012a);

Moore. Social Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966);

Oppenheimer. The State (2018, in German 1907);

Polany. Trade and Markets in the Early Empires (1957);

Wallerstein. The Modern World System, 4 vols. (1974-2011);

Wittfogel. The Hydraulic Civilizations (1956);

     -     Oriental Despotism (1957);

     -     The Hydraulic Approach to Pre-spanish Mesoamerica (1972).