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[There are also dozens of brief “Postscripts” in later chapters.]
1.1 General Education, World History, and this Book
2.1 Path Dependence
3.1 Group Selection
3.2 Deception and Hierarchy
3.3 Sculpting the Human Body
3.4 Individual Biographies
4.1 Malthusian Interactions
4.2 Political Leadership Terminology
5.1 Nature of Trade
5.2 Uses of Money
5.3 Characteristics of Transport
5.4 The Reputation of Merchants
5.5 Measuring Economic Growth
5.6 Increased Complexity
6.1 Cities in History
6.2 Gender and Stratification
6.3 The Motives for War
6.4 The Evolution of War
7.1 Ecological Collapse
7.2 Rules of Succession
7.3 The Spread of Languages
7.4 Migration Decisions
8.1 The Roles of Religion
8.2 Magic and Religion
8.3 The Five Types of Ethical Analysis
8.4 The Purpose of Artistic Illustration
9.1 The Economics of Slavery
9.2 Shipwrecks
10.1 Sports and Games
10.2 Comparisons across Societies
10.3 Cuisine
10.4 Expanding Farm Sizes
11.1 Religious Choice
12.1 Decisive Battles
12.2 Travelling Cuisine
12.3 Technology Transmission
13.1 Head Binding
14.1 Commodity History
15.1 Stocks and Bonds and Pensions
15.2 The History of Timekeeping
17.1 Tales of Leadership
17.2 Epidemics
18.1 Artistic Borrowing
19.1 Scurvy
20.1 Universal Empire
20.2 Secluding Rulers
21.1 Cosmopolitan Vienna
21.2 State Capacity
21.3 Rise and Fall of Dynasties
23.1 The History of Rubber
23.2 Justification of this Book in Terms of the Nature of the Scholarly Enterprise
24.1 International Expositions
24.2 History of Childhood and Aging
25.1 Revolutionary Commonalities
27.1 The Third Gender
28.1 Ethical Reflection
29.1 Historiography
29.2 Revisiting the Ruler’s Challenge
29.3 The Causes of Economic Growth
29.4 The Historical Novelty of Globalization
30.1 Poverty Rates
30.2 Resources and Economic Development
31.1 The Changing Role of Agriculture
31.2 Population and Economy in a Post-Malthusian World
31.3 The World’s Biggest Cities
31.4 Museums and Historical Sites and World History
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