We're in the Middle of a Long War with the State
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We're in the Middle of a Long War with the State by Ryan McMaken
Further reading:
Anatomy of the State by Murray N. Rothbard (Chapter 3 in Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays)
The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically by Franz Oppenheimer
Democracy: The God That Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (for an online pdf see here)
On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth by Bertrand de Jouvenel
The Problem of Security: Historicity of the State and "European Realism" by Luigi Marco Bassani & Carlo Lottieri (Chapter 1 in The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production)
The Rise and Decline of the State by Martin van Creveld
Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992 by Charles Tilly
The Sovereign State and Its Competitors by Hendrik Spruyt
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism by Larry Siedentop
Freedom and the Law by Bruno Leoni
The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State by Bruce L. Benson
The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society edited by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon & Alexander T. Tabarrok
The European Miracle by Ralph Raico
Conceived in Liberty: The Medieval Communes of Europe by Guglielmo Piombini
The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier by Terry L. Anderson & Peter J. Hill
Historical Case Studies of Non-Government Law Enforcement (Section IV in Anarchy and the Law edited by Edward P. Stringham)
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southest Asia by James C. Scott
Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 by R. J. Rummell