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Domestication as Innovation
This paper highlights some of the key innovations in human behaviours, such as soil preparation, harvesting and threshing, and how these were coupled with genetic 'innovations' within plant populations.
Martial Republics of Classical Greece
Discusses the ancient Greek polis as a predecessor of the modern nation state. Opposition of the fundamental principles of modern liberal democracy and the Greek polis; Distinction offered by Alexander Hamilton; Orientation towards the promotion of virtue; Ideal of kinship in antiquity; Reasons for war among the Greek polis; Initiation into manhood and war.

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Foundations of Western Civilization
Written by William J. Bossenbrook, published in 1939.
Founding of Western Civilization
Written by George Clark Sellery in 1929.