From Tribe To Empire
This seminal work written in a close collaboration between an eminent sociologist and an eminent historian show that sociology is, and should be, the ally of the historian and vice versa. Taking Egypt and the Ancient East as the subject, this analysis of early society seeks to show the beginnings of social order and its first steps onto the ladder that leads to classical civilization of the ancient and modern world. The book covers in a systematic way, both theoretically and historically totemic organisation, individualized and communistic power, the progress from clans and kingdom was especially in ancient Egypt and the Semitic world, the empires of Iran and the Barbarian invasions. A stimulating and authoritative study in history and sociology.
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From Tribe To Empire
This seminal work written in a close collaboration between an eminent sociologist and an eminent historian show that sociology is, and should be, the ally of the historian and vice versa. Taking Egypt and the Ancient East as the subject, this analysis of early society seeks to show the beginnings of social order and its first steps onto the ladder that leads to classical civilization of the ancient and modern world. The book covers in a systematic way, both theoretically and historically totemic organisation, individualized and communistic power, the progress from clans and kingdom was especially in ancient Egypt and the Semitic world, the empires of Iran and the Barbarian invasions. A stimulating and authoritative study in history and sociology.
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From Tribe To Empire

From Tribe To Empire

by A. Moret, G. Davy
From Tribe To Empire

From Tribe To Empire

by A. Moret, G. Davy

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This seminal work written in a close collaboration between an eminent sociologist and an eminent historian show that sociology is, and should be, the ally of the historian and vice versa. Taking Egypt and the Ancient East as the subject, this analysis of early society seeks to show the beginnings of social order and its first steps onto the ladder that leads to classical civilization of the ancient and modern world. The book covers in a systematic way, both theoretically and historically totemic organisation, individualized and communistic power, the progress from clans and kingdom was especially in ancient Egypt and the Semitic world, the empires of Iran and the Barbarian invasions. A stimulating and authoritative study in history and sociology.

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ISBN-13: 9781136193675
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/28/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 6 MB

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G. Davy, A. Moret

Table of Contents

PART I: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND THE PROGRESSIVE CONCENTRATION OF POWER IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES CHAPTER I: THE PROBLEM: HISTORY – SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER II: TOTEMIC ORGANIZATION CHAPTER Ill: TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION IN RELATION TO TOTEMIC ORGANIZATION CHAPTER IV: THE FIRST TRACES OF INDIVIDUALIZED POWER WITHIN THE COMMUNISTIC TOTEMICO-TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION CHAPTER V: THE PROGRESS OF INDIVIDUALIZED POWER AND THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE COMMUNISTIC TOTEMIC ORGANIZATION. EVOLUTION IN MYTHOLOGY AND IN POLITICS CHAPTER VI: THE CONDITIONS OF THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF POWER PART II: FROM CLANS TO KINGDOMS CHAPTER I: THE ORIGINS OF SOCIAL LIFE AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN EGYPT CHAPTER II: THE EGYPTIAN KINGDOM AND ITS NEIGHBOURS UNDER THE OLD EMPIRE CHAPTER III: THE SEMETIC WORLD TO 2000 B.C. PART III: THE FIRST EMPIRES: THE ORIENT CHAPTER I: THE IRANIAN AND ASIANIC INVASIONS ANDTHE BARBARIAN EMPIRE OF THE HYKSOS CHAPTER II: THE EGYPTIAN EMPIRE AND 'THE CONCERT OF NATIONS IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY CHAPTER III: THE EGYPTO-HITTITE ENTENTE AND THE PEOPLES OF THE NORTH AND OF THE SEA
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