SUMMARY AND CONTENTS

 0. Contents

ECONOMIC GROWTH EXPLAINS 

CONFLICTS BETWEEN NEW AND ARCHAIC FORCES

AND POWER'S BRACING

TO CONTAIN THE CHALLENGE

Take the railings that accent royal prestige

 France's 17th-century Louis XIV and the sultan of Bornu (Northern Nigeria) in the 1820's

 

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Contents

I. 
Comparisons, a new tool for history

II. 
Braking the search for gain

2.1. One can't bring in the harvest alone
2.2. When chiefs become kings
2.3. The grandiose destruction of wealth
2.4. Behavior whose logic escapes us 
2.5. Read history like a detective story
 or an explorer's account
2.6. Were economic motivations recogized 
2.7. Profits' explosive consequences

III.

Containing growth:
Kings and ritualized warfare 

3.3. Maintaining the status quo, the function of kings

3.2. Ritualized warfare, another brake on growth

IV.
Growth, 
and African cycles of stability and conflict 

4.1. Commerce strikes a communal society 

4.2. Throughout the savannah, comparable change 

4.3. Back to Djimini: violence reappears

4.4. Commercial forces win, then crumble

4.5. Another narrative

V.
"The past is another country:"

Take pre-industrial France

5.1. Enigmas, often clues 

5.2. Growth and the "Wars of Religion"

5.3. Absolute Monarchy wins

5.4. The Sun King, anti-capitalist? 

V.

The end of brakes on gain —  almost

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Comparisons, a new took for history

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"That's all, folks!"