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Illustrations | p. ix |
List of Maps | p. xii |
Prologue | p. 1 |
In the Beginning: Prehistory and Illiterate Societies | p. 20 |
A Torrent of Words: Change and Custom in Classical Greece | p. 46 |
The Birth of Abstraction: Plato, Aristotle and the Rational Mind | p. 72 |
The Universal Civilization: Rome and the Barbarians | p. 94 |
Augustine's Vision of Christianity: From Rebel Sect to Universal Faith | p. 113 |
Religion as Civilization: The Establishment of Western Christendom | p. 134 |
Another Way of Living: The Medieval Town and Communal Life | p. 162 |
Art as Civilization: Wealth, Power and Innovation in the Italian Renaissance | p. 180 |
The Search for the Christian Life: The European Reformation as a New Beginning | p. 213 |
Kings, Armies and Nations: The Rise of the Military State | p. 236 |
Us and Them: Colonization and Slavery | p. 256 |
The Rational Individual: Theory and Practice in Making Society | p. 281 |
Enlightenment and Revolution: Politics and Reason in France and America | p. 305 |
Industrialization and Nationalism: British Dominance and the Ideology of Freedom | p. 341 |
From Rural Colonies to Industrial Continent: The Making of Modern America | p. 369 |
Towards the Abyss: Technology, Ideology, Apocalypse | p. 397 |
The End of Civilization: Depression, Extremism and Genocide in Europe, America and Asia | p. 428 |
The Post-War World: From Social Cohesion to Global Marketplace | p. 454 |
Acknowledgements, References and Further Reading | p. 493 |
Index | p. 507 |
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