Primitive Civilizations 2 Volume Set

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.