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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 180. Chapters: Industrial Revolution, Globalization, Human evolution, Technological singularity, Annales School, Historical materialism, Civilization, Francis Fukuyama, Urbanization, Kondratiev wave, Arnold J. Toynbee, Creative destruction, Class struggle, Behavioral modernity, World-systems theory, Self-organization, Doomsday argument, Andrey Korotayev, Ibn Khaldun, Predictions made by Ray Kurzweil, The Master and His Emissary, Neolithic Revolution, Women's history, Globalization and disease, Modernization, Capitalist mode of production, Fernand Braudel, Technological determinism, Path dependence, Unilineal evolution, Technology and society, Immanuel Wallerstein, Control of fire by early humans, Accelerating change, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Cultural economics, Samir Amin, Leslie White, Conflict theory, Information revolution, Consumer revolution, Postdevelopment theory, Rostovian take-off model, Industrious Revolution, Modernization theory, Cultural history, Post-industrial society, Neoevolutionism, Pitirim Sorokin, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Douglas R. White, Nikolay Kradin, Complexity theory and organizations, Extended order, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Randall Collins, White's law, Gerhard Lenski, The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation, Correspondence principle, Neo-Malthusianism, Bow tie, Development criticism, Robert L. Carneiro, Multilineal evolution, Microhistory, Biocultural evolution, Complex society, Environmental Revolution, Kuznets swing, Thesis, antithesis, synthesis, Inevitability thesis, Kitchin cycle, Superintelligence, The Myth of the Machine, Cultural evolutionism, Pre-industrial society, Agrarian society, Ideosphere, Juglar cycle, Traditional society, Cultural transformation theory, Deurbanization. Excerpt: Globalization (or globalisat...
