Slavery, Freedom and Business Endeavor : The Reforging of Western Civilization and the Transformation of Everyday Life

Chapter 1: Introduction Civilization and Lived Experience -- Part 1: The Quests that Created a New Western Civilization (and Destroyed Others): Crops, Climate, Calories -- Chapter 2: The 3-Cs: Crops, Climate, Calories -- Chapter 3: Crops and the Shaping of Civilizations -- Chapter 4: Climate: The Destroyer of Civilizations, and How Early Modern Europe Rose from Catastrophe -- Chapter 5: The Eternal Challenge: Calorific Expenditure and the Emergence of an Industrialized Civilization -- Part 2: Freedom, Slavery and The Rise of an Industrialized Western Civilization -- Chapter 6: Time, Scale and Understandings of Western Civilization -- chapter 7: What is Freedom? What is Slavery? -- Chapter 8: Freedom, Democracy and Individualism: Cause of Business Success or Mere Correlation? -- Chapter 9: Slavery and its Legacies -- Part 3: Global Transformation: The Embrace and Rejection of an Industrialized Western Civilization -- chapter 10: Global Transformation -- chapter 11: A Globalized Civilization: Ascendancy, Contradictions and Interdependence -- Chapter 12: Choices and the Milletization of Western Society.