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The Ephemeral Civilization: Exploding the Myth of Social Evolution
By Graeme Donald Snooks
600 pages
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The Ephemeral Civilization is an astonishing intellectual feat in which Snooks develops an original and ground-breaking analysis of changing sociopolitical forms over the past 3,000 years.Related books and articles at Questia
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Figures x
- Tables xii
- Preface xiii
- 1 - The Myth of Social Evolution 1
- Part I - Theory 21
- Strategic Theory - Strategic Theory 23
- 2 - A Realist Model of Human Behaviour 25
- 3 - A New Model of Institutional Change 52
- Evolutionary Theory - Evolutionary Theory 72
- 4 - The Ethereal World of Institutionalism 73
- 5 - The Robotic World of Sociobiology 97
- Part II - History 129
- Conquest Society - Conquest Society 131
- 6 - Rome 133
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Figures x
- Tables xii
- Preface xiii
- 1 - The Myth of Social Evolution 1
- Part I - Theory 21
- Strategic Theory - Strategic Theory 23
- 2 - A Realist Model of Human Behaviour 25
- 3 - A New Model of Institutional Change 52
- Evolutionary Theory - Evolutionary Theory 72
- 4 - The Ethereal World of Institutionalism 73
- 5 - The Robotic World of Sociobiology 97
- Part II - History 129
- Conquest Society - Conquest Society 131
- 6 - Rome 133
- 7 - Tenochtitlan 176
- Commerce Society - Commerce Society 206
- 8 - Greece 207
- 9 - Venice 239
- Technological Society - Technological Society 273
- 10 - England 274
- 11 - The United States of America 365
- Part III - Future 419
- 12 - The Coming Clash of the Mega-States 421
- 13 - A Global-State? 488
- Notes 512
- Glossary of New Terms and Concepts 518
- References 527
- Index 547