Primitive Civilizations
Or, Outlines of the History of Ownership in Archaic Communities
2 Volume Set

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Preface
1. Introduction
2. Prehistoric problems
Book I. Ownership in Egypt:
1. The monarchy and the royal officers
2. The economic order
3. Commerce and industry
4. Caste and descent
5. The military class
6. The national religion and the priesthood
7. Civil law and custom
8. Domestic relation and family law
Book II. Ancient Babylonia:
1. Sumerian civilization
2. Babylonian chronology
3. The ancient cities of Sumer and Akkad
4. Babylonia and Assyria
5. Commercial law and contract tablets
6. Domestic relations and family law
Book III. From Massalia to Malabar:
1. The Phoenicians and Carthage
2. Prehistoric populations of Asia Minor, Greece, and Italy
3. The Etruscans, Lycians, and Rhodians
4. The laws of Charondas
5. Legendary Amazons and historical Iberians
6. Crete and Sparta
7. A Syrian law-book
8. Ancient Arabia
9. Hamitic African tribes
10. Malabar. Volume 2: Book IV. Ownership in China:
1. The land and its history
2. The ancient monarchy
3. Political ethics and political economy
4. The rural economy of the Chow
5. Industry and trade in the middle antiquity of China
6. Social and domestic relations in mediaeval China
7. Feudalism and the fall of Chow
8. The philosophers of the hundred schools
9. The usurpation of T'sin and the burning of the books
10. Reign of the Han Dynasty (206 BC–229 AD)
11. From the Three Kingdoms to the Souy Dynasty (221–620 AD)
12. The Tang Dynasty (620–907 AD)
13. Chinese finance from the Han to the Tang Dynasty
14. Posterior dynasties and the Sung (907–1280 AD)
15. Agrarian economy and the innovator's laws
16. Taxation and finance under the Sung
17. Two literary statesmen of the Sung Dynasty
18. Controversies, the schools and the examinations
19. Foreign accounts of China under the Sung and the first Mongols
20. The Mongols after Kubla
21. The Ming Dynasty (1368–1649 AD)
22. Education, art, and social changes under the Ming
23. Foreign accounts of China under the Ming
24. The Mantchu Dynasty, called Tsing, 1644–****
25. Contemporary China
26. Life in Chinese villages
27. The wages and organization of industry
28. Commerce and trade
29. The law of marriage and inheritance
30. Agrarian laws and customs
31. Financial and mercantile offences
32. Miscellaneous laws, administration and social institutions
Conclusions
Appendices
Index.