the title here is devious and would make you think this is Davis' big contribution to Marxology when its actually an unbalanced collection of four disparate essays

the main one, that grants the book its name and takes up half of it, puts a lot of granular detail, geographic, sociological and labour history on the bones of Marxist historiography from the nineteenth century to the present, and is very very good.

the second, which grants the volume its subtitle, is a proposed reading of Marx's theory of nationalism via the Eighteenth Brumaire. it's decent as a reading of that text, but the new theory never really comes together. it was interesting to see Marx and Engels' getting swept up in Prussian chauvinism during the war with France wasn't a bourgeois smear, I'll probably be returning to this if it's ever necessary for me to want to debunk Trotskyist arguments about lesser-evilism in the future.

final two essays on ecology, Kropotkin's contributions to early understandings of climate change are fine.