1. Introduction -- 2. Agrarian Societies -- 3. The Formation of States -- 4. State Formation in the

victims for victims of conflict in transitional societies / Heather Strang -- The hidden violent

societies adopted these policies, and why some but not other countries have undertaken reforms. Drawing on

economies and societies. Yet the dimensions in which power regulation, social equity and democracy

-- Stokvels, savings clubs and burial societies -- The effect of apartheid -- Communities and access to

How should we create wealth in societies, and why is it right and necessary to do so? What improves

Secret societies -- Fiction.

public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust. But it is in the nature of reasoning

their consequences for states and societies around the world. Chapters provide up-to-date descriptions

-- 4. Polities -- 5. Violence -- 6. Civil societies -- 7. Regimes of complex inequality -- 8. Varieties

Introduction -- Understanding societies: from capitalism to post-industrialism -- Societies and

"Diets and dieting have concerned - and sometimes obsessed - human societies for centuries. The