Pre-Industrial SocietiesPatricia Crone
Pre-Industrial Societies
by Patricia Crone · first published 2003
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite non-fiction books of all time?” ↗This book did a lot to inform my sketch: https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Industrial-Societies-Anatomy-Pre-... I don't think she says anything about democracy at all. It doesn't seem to have been common in pre-industrial times.
on “Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis” ↗Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/1780747411/ ) presents serfdom as one outcome of a battle between the head of state and local nobility that was common across societies, with…
on “Rome: Decline and Fall? Part II: Institutions” ↗Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/1780747411/ ) makes the case that standardized weights and measures do indeed make things easier for the state, but that in this case the state…
on “Glasgow is trying to make urban living less miserable” ↗