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Tables of Contents for Human Accomplishment
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
A Note on Presentation
xiii
Introduction
xv
PART ONE A Sense of Accomplishment
1
56
1. A Sense of Time
3
10
2. A Sense of Mystery
13
12
3. A Sense of Place
25
28
4. A Sense of Wonder
53
4
PART TWO Identifying the People and Events That Matter
57
188
5. Excellence and Its Identification
59
28
6. The Lotka Curve
87
20
7. The People Who Matter I: Significant Figures
107
12
8. The People Who Matter II: The Giants
119
36
9. The Events That Matter I: Significant Events
155
54
10. The Events That Matter II: Meta-Inventions
209
36
PART THREE Patterns and Trajectories
245
138
11. Coming to Terms with the Role of Modern Europe
247
18
12. ...and of Dead White Males
265
30
13. Concentrations of European and American Accomplishment
295
14
14. Taking Population into Account: The Accomplishment Rate
309
22
15. Explanations I: Peace and Prosperity
331
22
16. Explanations II: Models, Elite Cities, and Freedom of Action
353
26
17. What's Left to Explain?
379
4
PART FOUR On the Origins and Decline of Accomplishment
383
76
18. The Aristotelian Principle
385
6
19. Sources of Energy: Purpose and Autonomy
391
18
20. Sources of Content: The Organizing Structure and Transcendental Goods
409
18
21. Is Accomplishment Declining?
427
22
22. Summation
449
10
APPENDICES
459
130
1. Statistics for People Who Are Sure They Can't Learn Statistics
461
14
2. Construction of the Inventories and the Eminence Index
475
16
3. Inventory Sources
491
14
4. Geographic and Population Data
505
8
5. The Roster of the Significant Figures
513
76
Notes
589
36
Bibliography
625
14
Index
639