PART ONE: RETURNING TO A THEORY OF SOCIAL FORMATION/Social Relations in Tension/Contending Approaches in Outline/Theory in the Shadow of Terror/PART TWO: RETHINKING FORMATIONS OF PRACTICE AND BEING/Constituting Customary Community/Communication and Exchange Money and Writing/Time and Space Calendars and Maps/Bodies and Symbols Blood and Milk/PART THREE: REWRITING THE HISTORY OF THE PRESENT/State Formation /From Kingdoms and Empires to Nation-States/Nation Formation/From the Medieval to the Postmodern/Global Formation/From the Oecumene to Planet Exploitation/Conclusion/Principles for a Postnational World