Pre-Industrial Societies Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World

Here, historian Patricia Crone offers a blueprint for a world now lost,utlining the common features of Islamic, Indian, Chinese and pre-Medievaluropean societies. The book concentrates on such issues as the role ofolitics and religion; how communities developed social hierarchies; and theelationship between the individual and the state. Crone provides a livelynd accessible explanation of how human society was organized in the 5000ears prior to the Industrial Revolution.

Patricia Crone is Mellon Professor of Islamic History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA.