Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
the Sociology of Agrarian | 27 |
Imperial China | 33 |
The Land of the Brahmans | 58 |
Islam and Pastoralism | 84 |
The Rise of Christian Europe | 111 |
a Logic to Industrialism? | 147 |
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