The Creation of Order

By Michael Hudson

Source: Human Bridges Project

Archaic Organization of Time, Measurement and Laws, Music, Tribes, and Cities

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Michael Hudson started researching and drafting The Creation of Order as a book manuscript in the early 1980s, and his research efforts to understand the systems and structures of archaic societies have continued into the present. Realizing the scale of research necessary to complete the ambitions of the book, Hudson shared the text with the Observatory, in the hopes that future editors would help sift through texts from the past and update and fill in the missing pieces.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter (Has level: 2), Preface (Has level: 3), Prologue: What Are the Roots of Civilization? (Has level: 3), Chronology and Maps (Has level: 3), Spring: Establishing Society’s Structural Proportions (Has level: 2), 1. How the Archaic Kosmos Integrated Nature and Society (Has level: 3), 2. The Shift From Lunar to Solar Calendars and Counting (Has level: 3), 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices (Has level: 3), Summer: Balancing Self-Expression With Group Order (Has level: 2), 4. Alphanumeric Notation and the Calendrical-Musical Kosmos (Has level: 3), 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord (Has level: 3), 6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets (Has level: 3), Autumn: The Division of Labor and Economic Justice (Has level: 2), 7. Social Division Into Calendrical Tribes and Ranks (Has level: 3), 8. From the Temple Corporation to the Family Oikos (Household) (Has level: 3), 9. The Archaic Cosmology of Cities: Building the Kosmos on Earth (Has level: 3), Winter: The Archaic Order in Motion and Its Collapse (Has level: 2), 10. Social Justice Sanctified, From Inanna and Nanshe to Nemesis (Has level: 3), 11. Periodicities of Property and Debt (Has level: 3), 12. The Cosmology of War (Has level: 3), Epilogue: Modern Civilization as the Destruction of Archaic Order (Has level: 2), Backmatter (Has level: 2), Acknowledgments (Has level: 3), Bibliography (Has level: 3), Lecture: How Temples and Religion Played a Central Role in Creating the Ancient Economic Order That Has Become Secularized Today (Has level: 3), Help Us Edit and Join This Collaborative Research Project (Has level: 2), Navigate the Query Pages Throughout This Book (Has level: 3), Style Guide for This Book (Has level: 3)