Main contents
1. Introduction: Crises and Cycles in Animals and Man
2. The Crises and Cycles of China
3. North Africa and Western Asia
4. The Northern Mediterranean: Greece
5. The Northern Mediterranean: Rome and After
6. North-Western Europe: The Region and Its Crises
7. North-Western Europe: The Breakthrough And After
8. Monsoon Asia
9. Central Mexico and the Andes to the Conquests
10. Swidden Farming and the Maya
11. Some Societies without Recorded History
12. The Modern World: the Population Explosion in North-Western Europe
13. The Modern World: Universal Crisis and the Malthusian Solution
Classified Bibliography