The evolution of culture: The development of civilization to the fall of rome
McGraw-Hill, New York, (1959)Abstract
Traces development of culture and social systems from Primate revolution to Agricultural revolution. Cultural development and advance are affected and limited by the 'source of energy' of a society and technological improvements therein. The agricultural revolution provided a new basis for cultural development, establishing the basis for propertied classes, the expansion of city-states into nation-states and then into empires, and for further great technological innovation and, eventually, the Industrial Revolution.