table of contents COMMON GENIUS: Guts, Grit, and Common Sense
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 -- The Theory of History 3
Chapter 2 -- Past Summaries of The Past 16
Chapter 3 -- The Nature of Intelligence 23
Chapter 4 -- Philosophers vs. Scientists 42
Chapter 5 -- The Stepping Stones of History 52
Phoenicia -- The First Merchant State 53
Greece -- The Roots of Democracy 56
Iceland -- Overcoming Geography and Climate 62
The Basques -- The Importance of Undesirable Land 65
Florence and the Italian City States -- Drawing on the Past 69 Holland -- Bourgeois Burghers at Work 79
Scotland -- The Protestant Reformation Realized 84
England -- A Thousand Years of Persistence by the Common People 90
America -- Putting it all Together--The Ultimate Stepping Stone 96
Chapter 6 -- Why The West Won 105
Chapter 7 -- Defining Historical Progress 129
Chapter 8 -- How Developing Nations Can Develop 138
Chapter 9 -- Smugglers, Mercantilism, Fishing and Illegal Immigration 156
Chapter 10 -- How Religions Affect Growth and Freedom 165
Chapter 11 -- European Diplomacy -- Two Hundred Years of Failure 182
Chapter 12 -- The Difference Between Principles and Ideas 198
Chapter 13 -- Drifting Backward--Totalitarianism and Genocide in the 20th Century 210
Chapter 14 -- Problems of Mature Societies -- The Intelligentsia Arrives 226
Chapter 15 -- The Decline of Societies -- Following the Wrong Vision 252
Chapter 16 -- What’s So Great About The Common Man 274
Notes 282
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 -- The Theory of History 3
Chapter 2 -- Past Summaries of The Past 16
Chapter 3 -- The Nature of Intelligence 23
Chapter 4 -- Philosophers vs. Scientists 42
Chapter 5 -- The Stepping Stones of History 52
Phoenicia -- The First Merchant State 53
Greece -- The Roots of Democracy 56
Iceland -- Overcoming Geography and Climate 62
The Basques -- The Importance of Undesirable Land 65
Florence and the Italian City States -- Drawing on the Past 69 Holland -- Bourgeois Burghers at Work 79
Scotland -- The Protestant Reformation Realized 84
England -- A Thousand Years of Persistence by the Common People 90
America -- Putting it all Together--The Ultimate Stepping Stone 96
Chapter 6 -- Why The West Won 105
Chapter 7 -- Defining Historical Progress 129
Chapter 8 -- How Developing Nations Can Develop 138
Chapter 9 -- Smugglers, Mercantilism, Fishing and Illegal Immigration 156
Chapter 10 -- How Religions Affect Growth and Freedom 165
Chapter 11 -- European Diplomacy -- Two Hundred Years of Failure 182
Chapter 12 -- The Difference Between Principles and Ideas 198
Chapter 13 -- Drifting Backward--Totalitarianism and Genocide in the 20th Century 210
Chapter 14 -- Problems of Mature Societies -- The Intelligentsia Arrives 226
Chapter 15 -- The Decline of Societies -- Following the Wrong Vision 252
Chapter 16 -- What’s So Great About The Common Man 274
Notes 282
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