Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Prehistoric problems; Book I. Ownership in Egypt: 1. The monarchy and the royal officers; 2. The economic order; 3. Commerce and industry; 4. Caste and descent; 5. The military class; 6. The national religion and the priesthood; 7. Civil law and custom; 8. Domestic relation and family law; Book II. Ancient Babylonia: 1. Sumerian civilization; 2. Babylonian chronology; 3. The ancient cities of Sumer and Akkad; 4. Babylonia and Assyria; 5. Commercial law and contract tablets; 6. Domestic relations and family law; Book III. From Massalia to Malabar: 1. The Phoenicians and Carthage; 2. Prehistoric populations of Asia Minor, Greece, and Italy; 3. The Etruscans, Lycians, and Rhodians; 4. The laws of Charondas; 5. Legendary Amazons and historical Iberians; 6. Crete and Sparta; 7. A Syrian law-book; 8. Ancient Arabia; 9. Hamitic African tribes; 10. Malabar.

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A pioneering comparative analysis of the economic history of ancient societies including Egypt and China, first published in 1897.