Editor's Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Successive Reequilibrations as the Mechanism of Cultural Evolution
Chapter 2. Structure, Function, and Equilibrium in the Evolutionism of Herbert Spencer
Chapter 3. The Transition from Quantity to Quality: A Neglected Causal Mechanism in Accounting for Social Evolution
Chapter 4. A Reappraisal of the Roles of Technology and Organization in the Origin of Civilization
Chapter 5. Ascertaining, Testing, and Interpreting Sequences of Cultural Development
Chapter 6. Stellar Evolution and Social Evolution: A Study in Parallel Processes
Chapter 7. The Nature of the Chiefdom as Revealed by Evidence from the Cauca Valley of Colombia
Chapter 8. What Happened at the Flashpoint? Conjectures on Chiefdom Formation at the Very Moment of Conception
Chapter 9. Process vs. Stages: A False Dichotomy in Tracing the Rise of the State
Chapter 10. Was the Chiefdom a Congelation of Ideas?
Chapter 11. A Theory of the Origin of the State
Chapter 12. The Circumscription Theory: Challenge and Response
Chapter 13. Political Expansion as an Expression of the Principle of Competitive Exclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index