Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World

ISBN-13: 9781780747415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str.

Patricia Crone

Opis

Eminent historian Patricia Crone defines the common features of a wide range of pre-industrial societies, from locations as seemingly disparate as the Mongol Empire and pre-Columbian America to cultures as diverse as the Ming Dynasty and 17th-century France. This lucid exploration of the characteristics shared by these societies is an essential introductory text for all students of history.

Spis treści

Preface

1 Introduction: What is a Complex Society?

Part I The Pre-Industrial Pattern

2 Socio-economic Organization

3 The State

4 Politics

5 Culture

6 Society and the Individual

7 Religion

Part II The Departure from the Pattern

8 The Oddity of Europe

9 Modernity



Further Reading

Index

O autorze

Crone, PatriciaPatricia Crone is Mellon Professor of Islamic history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. She is the editor of Oneworld's Makers of the Muslim World series.