Patricia Crone

Pre-Industrial Societies

Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A lively introduction to how society functioned prior to the Industrial Revolution

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oneworld Publications
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 134mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9781780747415
• ISBN-10: 1780747411
• Artikelnr.: 42056815

Autorenporträt

Patricia Crone was Mellon Professor of Islamic History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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