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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| 10,000 Years of Social Evolution | |
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| The Ancestral Environment | |
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| The Neolithic Revolution | |
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| The Rise of Civilization and the State | |
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| The Rise of Modern Capitalism and Industrialism | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Theories of Social Evolution and Development | |
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| Classical Evolutionism | |
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| Marxian Evolutionism | |
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| Twentieth-Century Evolutionism: First Generation | |
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| V. Gordon Childe | |
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| Leslie White | |
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| Julian Steward | |
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| Twentieth-Century Evolutionism: Second Generation | |
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| Talcott Parsons's Idealist Evolutionism | |
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| Gerhard Lenski's Technological Evolutionism | |
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| Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism | |
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| Twentieth-Century Evolutionism: Third Generation | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Preindustrial Societies: Hunter-Gatherers and Horticulturalists | |
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| Hunter-Gatherer Societies | |
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| Subsistence Technology | |
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| The Original Affluent Society? | |
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| Economic Life | |
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| Social Inequalities and Political Life | |
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| Simple Horticultural Societies | |
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| Subsistence Technology | |
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| Economic Life | |
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| Social Inequalities and Politics | |
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| Intensive Horticultural Societies | |
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| Subsistence Technology | |
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| Economic Life and Stratification | |
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| Politics | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Preindustrial Societies: Agrarian and Pastoral Societies | |
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| Agrarian Societies | |
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| Subsistence Technology | |
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| Economic Life | |
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| Stratification | |
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| Politics | |
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| Pastoral Societies | |
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| Subsistence Technology | |
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| Political Economy | |
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| Causes of the Evolution of Preindustrial Societies | |
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| The Evolution of Subsistence Technology | |
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| The Evolution of Political Economy | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| The Rise of the Modern World | |
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| The Emergence of Economic Markets | |
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| Societies in Relation to the Market | |
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| Aspects of the Market in Preindustrial Societies | |
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| Some Qualifications: Precapitalist Commercialism and Its Growth | |
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| The Origins of Modern Capitalism | |
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| European Feudalism | |
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| Commercial Expansion and the Decline of Feudalism | |
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| The Nature of Capitalism | |
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| Early Capitalism between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries | |
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| The Seventeenth Century and Mercantilism | |
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| Capitalism as a World-System | |
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| The Capitalist World-Economy from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries | |
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| The Development of Capitalism in Japan | |
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| Explaining the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism | |
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| The Political Sphere: The Formation of National States | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Industrialization and the Expansion of the World-System | |
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| The Industrial Revolution and the Emergence of Industrial Capitalism | |
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| The Industrial Revolution and Its Causes | |
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| The Industrial Revolution in World-System Perspective | |
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| Industrial Capitalism Since the Late Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Japanese Transition to Industrial Capitalism | |
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| Hegemonic Rise and Fall in the World-System | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Industrial Capitalist Societies | |
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| Stratification in Industrial Capitalist Societies | |
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| Income Inequalities | |
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| Wealth Inequalities | |
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| The Class Structure of Industrial Capitalist Societies | |
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| Social Mobility within Modern Capitalism | |
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| The Origins of Parliamentary Democracy | |
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| Capitalism and the Welfare State | |
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| The Rise and Expansion of Mass Education | |
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| The Demographic Transition | |
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| The Rise of a Postindustrial Society? | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| The Rise and Demise of State Socialism | |
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| The Origin and Nature of State Socialism | |
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| State Socialism and the Capitalist World-Economy | |
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| Reform within State Socialism and the Transition to Postsocialism | |
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| Stratification within State Socialism | |
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| The Modern Communist State: Leninist Regimes | |
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| The Collapse of Communism | |
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| Postsocialism: Achievements, Failures, Prospects | |
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| The Economy | |
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| Stratification | |
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| Politics | |
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| The Future of Socialism | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Economic Development and Underdevelopment | |
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| The Nature of Underdevelopment | |
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| Why Underdevelopment? | |
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| Modernization Theory | |
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| Dependency Theory | |
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| World-System Theory | |
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| Explaining Underdevelopment: Some Conclusions | |
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| Development in East Asia | |
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| The Biggest Success Stories: The East Asian Tigers | |
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| The Rise of China | |
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| Development in Latin America | |
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| Sub-Saharan Africa: A Failure of Development | |
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| World-System Position and the Form of the State | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Globalization | |
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| The Nature of Globalization | |
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| Economic Globalization | |
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| Political Globalization | |
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| Sociocultural Globalization | |
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| What Drives the Globalization Process? | |
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| Globalization and Its Critics | |
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| Globalization and the Environment | |
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| Is Globalization Something New? | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Retrospect and Prospect: The Past 10,000 Years and the Next 100 | |
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| The Past 10,000 Years: Human Progress? | |
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| The Standard of Living | |
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| The Quantity and Quality of Work | |
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| Equality | |
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| Democracy and Freedom | |
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| The Concept of Progress Revisited | |
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| How to Judge a Society | |
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| Future Trends: The Very Large Scale | |
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| Future Trends: The Merely Large Scale | |
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| Conclusions: The Future from the Perspective of a General Theory of History | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |