Title: table of contents COMMON GENIUS: Guts, Grit, and Common Sense
Description: Table of Contents



Preface

Acknowledgements


Chapter  1  --  The Theory of History							 3			     			
Chapter  2  --  Past Summaries of The Past 							16	

Chapter  3  --   The Nature of Intelligence							23	

Chapter  4  --   Philosophers vs.  Scientists 							42

Chapter  5  --  The Stepping Stones of History						52

		Phoenicia -- The First Merchant State  					 53	    
		Greece -- The Roots of Democracy						 56	
		Iceland --  Overcoming  Geography and Climate				 62	
		The Basques -- The Importance of Undesirable Land				 65	
		Florence and the Italian City States -- Drawing on the Past			 69		 		Holland -- Bourgeois Burghers at Work			                      79
		Scotland -- The Protestant Reformation Realized				 84	
		England	-- A Thousand Years of Persistence by the Common People		 90
		America -- Putting it all Together--The Ultimate Stepping Stone		                        96     				
Chapter  6  --  Why The West Won							105		

Chapter  7  --  Defining Historical Progress							129	

Chapter  8  --  How Developing Nations Can Develop			 			138	 

Chapter  9  --  Smugglers, Mercantilism, Fishing and Illegal Immigration			                     156		

Chapter 10  --  How Religions Affect Growth and Freedom     					165

Chapter 11  --  European Diplomacy -- Two Hundred Years of Failure				182

Chapter 12  --  The Difference Between Principles and Ideas					198	

Chapter 13  --  Drifting Backward--Totalitarianism and Genocide in the 20th Century		                     210	

Chapter 14  --  Problems of Mature Societies -- The Intelligentsia Arrives			                     226					
Chapter 15   --  The Decline of Societies -- Following the Wrong Vision			                     252						
Chapter 16   --  What’s So Great About The Common Man 				                     274			
Notes										282
Subjects: Libertarianism, Civilization, Philosophy, Free enterprise