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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Dedication
Introduction
PART I Tools, Language, and Environment
1 The Physical Stage
2 History Begins with Language
3 Civilization Begins with Geography
4 Trade Weaves the Networks
5 The Birth of Belief Systems
PART II One Planet, Many Worlds
6 Money, Math, Messaging, Management, and Might
7 Megaempires Take the Stage
8 The Lands in Between
9 When Worlds Overlap
10 World Historical Monads
PART III The Table Tilts
11 Out of the North
12 Europe on the Rise
13 The Nomads’ Last Roar
14 Europe and the Long Crusades
15 The Restoration Narrative
16 The Progress Narrative
PART IV History’s Hinge
17 That Columbus Moment
18 Chain Reactions
19 After Columbus: The World
20 The Center Does Not Hold
21 Middle World Enmeshed
22 Ripple Effects
PART V Enter the Machine
23 The Invention Explosion
24 Our Machines, Ourselves
25 Social Constellations in the Machine Age
26 Empires and Nation-States
27 A World at War
PART VI The Singularity Has Three Sides
28 Beyond the Nation-State
29 Digital Era
30 The Environment
31 The Big Picture
Acknowledgments
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About the Author
Bibliography
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