Chapter 1 The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

Chapter 3 From Harappa to Mesopotamia and Egypt to Mycenae: Dark Ages, Political-Economic Declines, and Environmental/Climatic Changes 2200 B.C. –700 B.C.

Chapter 4 Power is in the Details: Administrative Technology and the Growth of Ancient Near Eastern Cores

Chapter 5 Power and Size: Urbanization and Empire Formation in World-Systems Since the Bronze Age

Chapter 6 Lamb, Rice, and Hegemonic Decline: The Mongol Empire in the Fourteenth Century

Chapter 7 The Rise of European Hegemony: The Political Economy of South Asia and Europe Compared, A.D. 1200– A.D. 1500

Chapter 8 Contentious Peasants, Paternalist State, and Arrested Capitalism in China’s Long Eighteenth Century

Chapter 9 Space, Matter, and Technology in Globalization of the Past and Future