| CHAPTER | PAGE |
| Author’s Preface | iii |
| I | Theories of the State | 1 |
| The Sociological Idea of the State | 15 |
| II | The Genesis of the State | 22 |
| (a) Political and Economic Means | 24 |
| (b) Peoples Without a State: Huntsmen and Grubbers | 27 |
| (c) Peoples Preceding the State: Herdsmen and Vikings | 33 |
| (d) The Genesis of the State | 51 |
| III | The Primitive Feudal State | 82 |
| (a) The Form of Dominion | 82 |
| (b) The Integration | 89 |
| (c) The Differentiation: Group Theories and Group Psychology | 92 |
| (d) The Primitive Feudal State of Higher Grade | 105 |
| IV | The Maritime State | 121 |
| (a) Traffic in Prehistoric Times | 122 |
| (b) Trade and the Primitive State | 135 |
| (c) The Genesis of the Maritime State | 140 |
| (d) Essence and Issue of the Maritime States | 155 |
| V | The Development of the Feudal State | 174 |
| (a) The Genesis of Landed Property | 174 |
| (b) The Central Power in the Primitive Feudal State | 182 |
| (c) The Political and Social Disintegration of the Primitive Feudal State | 191 |
| (d) The Ethnic Amalgamation | 213 |
| (e) The Developed Feudal State | 221 |
| VI | The Development of the Constitutional State | 229 |
| (a) The Emancipation of the Peasantry | 231 |
| (b) The Genesis of the Industrial State | 236 |
| (c) The Influences of Money Economy | 243 |
| (d) The Modern Constitutional State | 257 |
| VII | The Tendency of the Development of the State | 274 |
| Notes | 293 |
