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| The Philosophy of History: A Bone of Contention | |
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| First Attempts at a Philosophy of History | |
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| The Philosophy of History Rejected | |
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| The Philosophy of History Reembraced | |
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| The Changing Faces of History | |
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| The Practice of History | |
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| History as the Recounting of Objective Facts | |
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| History as Literature | |
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| Universal History | |
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| The Concept of Cultural History | |
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| The New History | |
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| The Thorny Thickets of History | |
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| Free Will versus Determinism | |
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| Moral Judgments in History | |
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| Contingency in History | |
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| An Anthropologist Looks at Contingency | |
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| Historical Relativism | |
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| What Drives the Engine of History? Race and the Deity | |
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| Racial Determinants of History | |
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| God in History | |
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| The Great Man and Ideas as Prime Movers | |
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| Anthropology and the Great Man Theory | |
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| The Great Men Speak for Tehsmelves | |
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| Ideas as Prime Movers | |
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| How to Turn History into Science | |
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| The Anthropological Perspective | |
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| From History to Social Science | |
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| The Comparative Method | |
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| History and Evolution | |
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| The Culture Process and Its Determinants | |
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| The Culture Process Exemplified | |
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| The Rise of Chiefdoms and States | |
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| The Theory Put to Use | |
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| Economic Factors as Historical Determinants | |
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| Charles Beard's Economic Interpretation | |
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| Are There Laws of History? | |
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| Historical Laws Opposed | |
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| Laws of History Championed | |
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| Historical Laws Denied | |
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| Laws of History Proposed | |
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| People and Culture Distinguished | |
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| Proposed Laws of Culture | |
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| The Law of Evolutionary Potential | |
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| Statistical Laws of Culture | |
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| Complexity as a Function of Size | |
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| Predicting the Onset of Chiefdoms | |
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| A Law of Cultural Development | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Cast of Characters: Selected List of Historians and Other Scholars and Writers Cited in the Text | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |