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· 분류 : 외국도서 > 역사 > 세계사
· ISBN : 9781107635975
· 쪽수 : 578쪽
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Preface to the second edition; 1. Societies as organized power networks; 2. The end of general social evolution: how prehistoric peoples evaded power; 3. The emergence of stratification, states and multi-power-actor civilisation in Mesopotamia; 4. A comparative analysis of the emergence of stratification, states and multi-power-actor civilisations; 5. The first empires of domination: the dialectics of compulsory cooperation; 6. 'Indo-Europeans' and iron: expanding, diversified power networks; 7. Phoenicians and Greeks: decentralized multi-power-actor civilisations; 8. Revitalized empires of domination: Assyria and Persia; 9. The Roman territorial empire; 10. Ideology transcendent: the Christian ecumene; 11. A comparative excursus into the world religions: Confucianism, Islam, and (especially) Hindu caste; 12. The European dynamic: I. the intensive phase, AD 800?1155; 13. The European dynamics: II. the rise of coordinating states, 1155?1477; 14. The European dynamic: III. international capitalism and organic national states, 1477?1760; 15. European conclusions: explaining European dynamism ? capitalism, Christendom, and states; 16. Patterns of world-historical development in agrarian societies; Index.