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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 -- The Theory of History
Chapter 2 -- Attempts to Summarize History
Chapter 3 -- The Nature of Intelligence
Chapter 4 -- Philosophers vs. Scientists
Chapter 5 -- The Stepping Stones of
History--Progress at a Snail’s Pace
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Phoenicia -- The First Merchant State
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Greece -- The Roots of Democracy
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Iceland -- Overcoming Geography and
Climate
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The Basques -- The Importance of
Undesirable Land
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Florence and the Italian City States --
Drawing on the Past
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Holland -- Bourgeois Burghers at Work
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Scotland -- The Protestant Reformation
Realized
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England -- A Thousand Years of
Persistence by the Common People
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America -- Putting it all Together--The
Ultimate Stepping Stone
Chapter 6 -- Why The West Won
Chapter 7 -- Defining Historical Progress
Chapter 8 -- Solutions for Less Developed
Nations
Chapter 9 -- How Smugglers and Illegals Show The
Way
Chapter 10 -- Did Different Religions Affect
Growth?
Chapter 11 -- European Diplomacy -- Two Hundred
Years of Failure
Chapter 12 -- Drifting Backward--Totalitarianism
and Genocide in the 20th Century
Chapter 13 -- Problems of Mature Societies -- The
Intelligentsia Arrives
Chapter 14 -- The Decline of Societies --
Following the Wrong Vision
Chapter 15 -- Concluding Thoughts
After word -- An Action Plan -- Guidelines from
the Past on Current Issues
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