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Why Biomes Gave Some Societies More Options Than Others
How the dominant vegetation in a region shaped agriculture, innovation, and human civilization
Sep 7
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Michael Magoon
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The Deeper Origins of the American Civil War
Why Two Different Societies Could No Longer Share One Nation
Jun 22
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Michael Magoon
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The Global Spread of Industrialization
Why some nations escaped poverty early, and how industrialization spreads from one society to another.
Mar 31
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Michael Magoon
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How the Scottish Enlightenment Invented the Concept of the "Commercial Society"
Plus why modern scholarship abandoned this crucial concept, and why that was a mistake.
Feb 16
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Michael Magoon
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The Prehistoric Migrations That Built the Pre-Modern World
How Society Types, Languages, and Genes Spread Long Before European Conquest
Feb 12
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Michael Magoon
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The Five Great Divergences That Shaped Human History
How Rare Breaks in Food and Energy Determined the Kinds of Societies Humans Could Form
Feb 2
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Michael Magoon
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When Progress Became a Law: The Industrial-Age Evolutionists
Evolution, Society Types, and the Nineteenth-Century Search for Laws of History
Jan 22
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Michael Magoon
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The Deep Roots of African Diversity: How Subsistence Shaped Tribal Societies
The concept of "Society Type" is the Missing Framework in African Anthropology
Jan 15
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Michael Magoon
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Why Some Nations Are Richer Than Others
How the Legacy of Society Types shapes today’s global inequality
Nov 10, 2025
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Michael Magoon
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Understanding Commercial societies (the series)
The societies that invented material progress for the masses: humanity's greatest accomplishment.
Jan 19, 2025
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Michael Magoon
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Society Types (the series)
Coming to grips with a critical concept for understanding human history
Dec 26, 2024
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Michael Magoon
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Does Progress always move in a straight line?
Is progress inevitable? Will progress continue forever?
Apr 18, 2024
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Michael Magoon
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