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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Dedication
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Figures
Preface to the UK Edition
Civilization
Introduction: Rasselas’s Question
1: Competition
TWO RIVERS
THE EUNUCH AND THE UNICORN
THE SPICE RACE
THE MEDIOCRE KINGDOM
2: Science
THE SIEGE
MICROGRAPHIA
OSMAN AND FRITZ
TANZIMAT TOURS
FROM ISTANBUL TO JERUSALEM
3: Property
NEW WORLDS
LAND OF THE FREE
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS
THE FATE OF THE GULLAHS
4: Medicine
BURKE’S PROPHECY
THE JUGGERNAUT OF WAR
MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES
THE SKULLS OF SHARK ISLAND
BLACK SHAME
5: Consumption
THE BIRTH OF THE CONSUMER SOCIETY
TURNING WESTERN
RAGTIME TO RICHES
THE JEANS GENIE
PYJAMAS AND SCARVES
6: Work
WORK ETHIC AND WORD ETHIC
GET YOUR KICKS
THE CHINESE JERUSALEM
LANDS OF UNBELIEF
THE END OF DAYS?
Illustrations
Conclusion: The Rivals
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Footnotes
Preface to the UK Edition
Page xxii
Introduction: Rasselas’s Question
Page 5
Page 10
Page 16
1: Competition
Page 29
2: Science
Page 52
Page 54
Page 56
Page 62
Page 65
Page 78
Page 93
3: Property
Page 96
Page 106
Page 116
Page 120
Page 121
Page 130
4: Medicine
Page 145
Page 146
Page 152
Page 156
Page 158
Page 162
Page 172
Page 177
5: Consumption
Page 196
Page 199
Page 200
Page 202
Page 206
Page 217
Page 220
Page 222
Page 224
Page 233
Page 235
Page 247
Page 249
Page 252
Page 253
Page 254
6: Work
Page 262
Page 265
Page 273
Page 274
Page 283
Page 290
Conclusion: The Rivals
Page 298
Page 301
Page 308
Page 312
Page 324
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