The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Read The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? Online
Authors: Jared Diamond
BOOK: The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
11.93Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
JARED DIAMOND
The World Until Yesterday
The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?
ALLEN LANE
an imprint of
PENGUIN BOOKS
Contents
An airport scene
Why study traditional societies?StatesTypes of traditional societiesApproaches, causes, and sourcesA small book about a big subjectPlan of the book
PART ONE
: SETTING THE STAGE BY DIVIDING SPACE
CHAPTER 1. Friends, Enemies, Strangers, and Traders
A boundaryMutually exclusive territoriesNon-exclusive land useFriends, enemies, and strangersFirst contactsTrade and tradersMarket economiesTraditional forms of tradeTraditional trade itemsWho trades what?Tiny nations
Other books
Wildwood by Drusilla Campbell
Seven Days in Rio by Francis Levy
Lost (The Allure Chronicles Book 3) by Alyssa Rose Ivy
The King's Blood by Daniel Abraham
Deadly Communion by Frank Tallis
For Such a Time by Breslin, Kate
Beautiful Elixir (Beautiful Oblivion #3) by Addison Moore
Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred by Jeffrey J. Kripal
Charming the Shrew by Laurin Wittig
Solbidyum Wars Saga 4: Too Late for Earth by Dale C. Musser