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Preface; 1. Societies as organized power networks; 2. The end of generalsocial evolution: how prehistoric peoples evaded power; 3. The emergence ofstratification, states, and multi-power-actor civilisation in Mesopotamia; 4.A comparative analysis of the emergence of stratification, states, andmulti-power-actor civilisations; 5. The first empires of domination: thedialectics of compulsory cooperation; 6. 'Indo-Europeans' and iron:expanding, diversified power networks; 7. Phoenicians and Greeks:decentralized multi-power-actor civilisations; 8. Revitalized empires ofdomination: Assyria and Persia; 9. The Roman territorial empire; 10. Ideologytranscendent: the Christian ecumene; 11. A comparative excursus into theworld religions: Confucianism, Islam, and (especially) Hindu caste; 12. TheEuropean dynamic: I. The intensive phase, A. D. 800-1155; 13. The Europeandynamics: II. The rise of coordinating states, 1155-1477; 14. The Europeandynamic: III. International capitalism and organic national states,1477-1760; 15. European conclusions: explaining European dynamism -capitalism, Christendom, and states; 16. Patterns of world-historicaldevelopment in agrarian societies; Index.