Ranked: How Is Sovereignty Is Gained And Lost?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: How Is Sovereignty Is Gained And Lost?

What Is Sovereignty:

Individual Sovereignty:

1. Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
2. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Christopher L. Hayes
3. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
4. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
5. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
6. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
7. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
8. The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
9. The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson
10. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
11. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
12. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
13. What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
14. The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
15. Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
16. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
17. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Individual Sovereignty / Fiction:

1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
3. (Circa 1980s - 2013 C.E.) Human Acts by Han Kang

General Understanding Of Sovereignty:

1. The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
2. The Politics by Aristotle
3. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
4. (Circa 20th Century - 2022 C.E.) How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, Sebastian Rosato
5. Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries by Marc Fasteau, and Ian Fletcher
6. (Circa 1980s - 2016 C.E.) Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones
7. Empire by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri
8. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
9. The Republic Of Plato by Plato, and Allan Bloom

General Understanding Of Sovereignty / Fiction:

• Death's End by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)

Various States:

Around The World

1. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
2. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
3. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
4. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
5. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller

African States: 

1. (Circa 1884 - 2020 C.E.) Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin
2. (Circa 30th Century B.C.E. - 2024 C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
3. The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
4. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall

Empires Of Islam:

1. Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
2. (Circa 30th Century B.C.E. - 2024 C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
3. (Circa 10th - 12th Century C.E.) Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man

European States:

1. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall

Middle East States:

1. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall

Latin American States:

1. (Circa Mid 18th - Mid 19s C.E.) Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
2. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall

Which State Are You Interested In?

Abbasid Caliphate:

• (Circa 7th C.E.- 13rd C.E.) Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull

Aksum [Kingdom of Aksum]

1. (Circa 1st Century - 540 C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

Algeria

1. (Circa 1830 - 2000s C.E.) A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne

Amazigh [Berbers]

1. (Circa 1th Century B.C.E. - 2024 C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

Artic:

1. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall

Argentina:

1. (Circa 1970s - 2000s C.E.)  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Asante Kingdom

1. (Circa 17th Century - 1931 C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

Assyrian Empire

• (Circa 12th-6th B.C.E.) Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull

Babylonia

• (Circa 7th-6th B.C.E.) Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull

Benin Kingdom

1. (Circa 600 - 2016 C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

Bolivia:

1. (Circa Mid 18th - Mid 19s C.E.) Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
2. (Circa 1985 - 2000 C.E.)  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Bosnia And Herzegovina:

1. (Circa 1579 - 2016 C.E.) Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson

China:

1. (Circa 1910s - 2010 C.E.) My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
2. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
3. Ancient China: Chinese Civilization From Its Origins To The Tang Dynasty by Maurizio Scarpari
4. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
5. (Circa 1980s - 1990s C.E.)  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
6. (Circa 1905 - 1950s C.E.) Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson

Colombia:

• (Circa Mid 18th - Mid 19s C.E.) Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana

Congo:

1. (1880s - Primarily 2000-2023 C.E.) Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
2. (Circa 1390 - 1920s C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

Egypt:

1. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
2. (Circa 30th Century - 30 B.C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
3. (Circa 10th - 12th Century C.E.) Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man

Ethiopia

1. (Circa 580 - 1543 C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

France:

1. (Circa 1420s-1431 Century C.E.) Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West
2. (Circa 1780s - 1790s C.E.) 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
3. (Circa 1780s - 1790s C.E.) A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
4. Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
5. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan

Franks:

1. (Circa 8th - Mid 9th Century C.E.) Charlemagne by Johannes Fried

Germany:

1. (Circa 1918 - 1933 C.E.) Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay

Ghana Empire:

1. (Circa 600 - 1235 C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

Great Zimbabwe:

1. (Circa 12th Century - 1450s C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

Greece:

1. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland

Guatemala:

1. (Circa 1524 - 1996 C.E.) Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson

Haiti:

1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

India:

1. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall

India / Fiction

1. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Indonesia:

1. Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani

Iraq:

1. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
2. (Circa 1900-1958 C.E.) Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull
3. (Circa 2003 - 2007 C.E.)  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Italy:

1. (Circa 1490s - 1527 C.E) Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power by Ross King

Iran / Fiction:

• (Circa 2024) A Quiet Life by William Cooper, Michael McKinley
  
  

Islamic State:

• (Circa 7th C.E.) Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull

Israel:

1. (Circa 1910s - 2018 C.E.) The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
2. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
3. (Circa 1940s - 2023 C.E.) The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle by Isabel Kershner
4. (Circa 1990s - 2007 C.E.)  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Japan:

1. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
2. (Circa 1905 - 1950s  C.E.) Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
3. (Circa 1942-1945 C.E.) With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge
4. Paekche's Principle: The Great Secret Of Asia by Bayemy Biyik

Kush [Kingdom of Kush]

• (Circa 25th Century B.C.E. - 4th Century C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

Macedonia:

1. The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC: Alexander's Successors at War by Tristan Hughes
2. (Circa 4th B.C.E.) Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull
3. Alexander the Great's Legacy: The Decline of Macedonian Europe in the Wake of the Wars of the Successors by Mike Roberts

Mali:

1. (Circa 1235 - 1430 C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

Mongolia:

1. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
2. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford

Morocco

1. (Circa 6th Century B.C.E. - 2024 C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

Mutapa Kingdom [Monomotapa]

• (Circa 1450 - 1629 C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

New Granada [Republic of New Granada]:

1. (Circa Mid 18th - Mid 19s C.E.) Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana

Nigeria:

1. (Circa 1909 - 2023 C.E.) Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson

North Korea:

1. (Circa 391 - 2022 C.E.) Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park

Norway:

1. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie

Ottoman Empire:

• (Circa 13th - 16th C.E.) Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull

Palestine:

1. (Circa 1910s - 2018 C.E.) The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
2. (Circa 1940s - 2023 C.E.) The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle by Isabel Kershner

Pakistan:

1. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall

Papua New Guinea:

1. (Circa 1840s - 1945 C.E.) Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson

Parthian Empire:

• (Circa 7th B.C.E - 3rd C.E.) Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull

Persia:

1. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland
2. (Circa 7th-4th B.C.E.) Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull

Peru:

• (Circa Mid 18th - Mid 19s C.E.) Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana

Philippines:

1. (Circa 1450s-2023 C.E.) Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson

Poland:

1. (Circa 1760s - 1795 C.E.) Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
2. (Circa 1980s - 1990s C.E.)  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Portugal:

1. The First Global Village: How Portugal Changed the World by Martin Page

Prussia:

• (Circa 1729 - 1796 C.E.) Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

Roman Empire:

1. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
2. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
3. Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy
4. (Circa 1st B.C.E. - 6th C.E.) Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull

Russia:

1. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
2. (Circa 1729 - 1796 C.E.) Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
3. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
4. (Circa 1774-2024 C.E.) Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
5. (Circa 1990s - 2000 C.E.)  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
6. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville

Rwanda:

• (Circa 1920s - 2000 C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

Rozvi:

• (Circa 1684 - 19th Century C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

Seleucid Empire:

• (Circa 4th - 1st B.C.E.) Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull

Singapore:

1. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew

Somaliland [Republic of Somaliland]:

1. (Circa 1888 - 2024 C.E.) Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson

Songhay Empire:

1. (Circa 1435 - 1592 C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

South Africa:

1. (Circa 1990s - 2006 C.E.)  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

South Korea:

1. (Circa 391 - 2022 C.E.) Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park
2. Paekche's Principle: The Great Secret Of Asia by Bayemy Biyik

Spain:

1. Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763 by Henry Kamen
2. (Circa Mid 18th - Mid 19s C.E.) Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
3. The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire by William S. Maltby

Sri Lanka

1. (Circa 2003 - 2005 C.E.)  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Sumer:

• (Circa 28th-27th, 20th-19th B.C.E.) Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull

Swahili:

1. (Circa 9th - 20th Century C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi

Syria:

1. (Circa 10th - 12th Century C.E.) Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man

United Kingdom:

1. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
2. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
3. Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World by Tristram Hunt
4. (Circa 1780s - 1790s C.E.) 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress

United States of America:

1. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
2. The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
3. These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
4. (Circa 1860s - 1940s, 2016-2022) The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell
5. (Circa 1780s - 1790s C.E.) 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
6. (Circa 1830s - 1880 C.E.)  Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
7. (Circa 1851 - 1957 C.E.) Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
8. (Circa 1950s- 2007 C.E.)  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
9. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall

United States of America / Fiction:

• (Circa 2024) A Quiet Life by William Cooper, Michael McKinley

Ukraine:

• Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum

Umayyad Caliphate:

• (Circa 7th -13th C.E.) Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull

Venezuela:

• (Circa Mid 18th - Mid 19s C.E.) Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana

Vikings:

• The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie

Zulu:

• (Circa 1787 - 1884 C.E.) An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi