Tables of Contents for The Company of Strangers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
 
Introduction
1
10
PART I: Tunnel Vision
11
18
CHAPTER 1 Who's In Charge?
13
14
Prologue to Part II
27
2
PART II: From Murderous Apes to Honorary Friends: How Is Human Cooperation Possible?
29
78
CHAPTER 2 Man and the Risks of Nature
31
17
CHAPTER 3 Murder, Reciprocity, and Trust
48
19
CHAPTER 4 Money and Human Relationships
67
11
CHAPTER 5 Honor among Thieves: Hoarding and Stealing
78
9
CHAPTER 6 Professionalism and Fulfilment in Work and War
87
12
Epilogue to Parts I and II
99
4
Prologue to Part III
103
4
PART III: Unintended Consequences: From Family Bands to Industrial Cities
107
108
CHAPTER 7 The City, from Ancient Athens to Modern Manhattan
109
14
CHAPTER 8 Water: Commodity or Social Institution?
123
14
CHAPTER 9 Prices for Everything?
137
16
CHAPTER 10 Families and Firms
153
21
CHAPTER 11 Knowledge and Symbolism
174
16
CHAPTER 12 Exclusion: Unemployment, Poverty, and Illness
190
19
Epilogue to Part III
209
2
Prologue to Part IV
211
4
Part IV: Collective Action: From Belligerent States to a Marketplace 0f Nations
215
30
CHAPTER 13 States and Empires
217
16
CHAPTER 14 Globalization and Political Action
233
12
Conclusion: How Fragile Is the Great Experiment?
245
14
Notes
259
20
Bibliography
279
16
Index
295