The Nomadic Leviathan: A Critique of the Sinocentric Paradigm (Inner Asia, 16)

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
	0.1	The Aim, Scope, and Method
	0.2	The Sinocentric Paradigm and the Great Anomaly
	0.3	The Pseudo-Weberian Theory
	0.4	The Origin of the Sinocentric Paradigm: Twisting Materialism and Redefining Evolution
	0.5	A Retrospective Rationalization
	0.6	The Nomadic Leviathan
	0.7	The Organization of This Book
1 The Habit of Thought
	1.1	Leviathan and Zomia: Environmental History
	1.2	The Pan-Eurasian Pattern
	1.3	The Origin of the Great Anomaly
	1.4	The Chinese Empire and Its Northern Variant
	1.5	The Sinocentric Paradigm: The Vision and the Division
2
The State before the Sinocentric Paradigm
	2.1	The State: The Battle of the Idealistic and Materialistic Conceptions of History
	2.2	The Conquest Theory and Its Materialistic Opponent
	2.3	The Nomadic Conquest: The Political Means
	2.4	The Weberian Separation: The State and the Political
	2.5	The Rise of the State: The Charismatic Conquest
	2.6	Legal Authority and Bureaucracy: The Rechtsstaat
3
Inner Asia before the Sinocentric Paradigm
	3.1	The Theory of Nomadic Feudalism: The Ancient Military Feudal Regime
	3.2	The Theory of Nomadic Civilization
	3.3	The Theory of Inner Asian Empires over China
	3.4	The Nomadic Political Order: Warlords and Warbands
4
The Sinocentric Scheme: Aim, Origins, and Theory
	4.1	Integrating China and Its Inner Asian Hinterland
	4.2	From Legal to Historical Fiction: The Chinese Empire
	4.3	Peopling Inner Asia: The Creation of a Barbarian Plague
	4.4	Redefining Evolution: The Environmental Theory of Political Organization
	4.5	The Scheme: Evolutionary and Anti-evolutionary Societies
	4.6	The Chinese Dynastic Cycle: Appropriating Inner Asian Empires
	4.7	The Chinese Absorptive Empire: Domesticating Inner Asian Empires
	4.8	The Cycle of Nomadic Political Power: Historical Geography Undermined
	4.9	Rejecting Nomadic Feudalism: Redressing, Redefining, and Selecting
5
Kinship Turn and Evolutionary Schemes
	5.1	The Triumph of the Sinocentric Scheme
	5.2	African Political Systems: Administrative Pyramid and Kinship Segmentation
	5.3	The Tatar State: Forging a Kinship Society and a Tribal-Consanguineal Polity
	5.4	Resurrecting the Theory of Rod Organization
	5.5	The Latest of the Conquest Theories: The Superstratification Thesis
	5.6	Superstratifications over China: Nomadic Conquerors and Rulers
	5.7	Evolutionary Anthropology and the Appropriation of the Weberian State
	5.8	The Theory of Tribalism: The Validation of the Sinocentric Scheme
6 Beyond Evolutionary Materialism: The Military Pathway
	6.1 Exhausting Evolutionary Materialism: Economic
and Warfare Pathways
	6.2	An Extreme Adaptive Strategy: The Military Feudal State
	6.3	The Perilous Frontier: Predators, Scavengers, and Parasites
	6.4	The Imperial Confederacy: Erasing Tribalism
	6.5	Cycles of Power: The Pattern
7
The Sinocentric Paradigm in (Frontier) History
	7.1	The Autocracy of Segmentary Opposition: Theory versus Sources
	7.2	Building Imperial Autocracy: Defying Cultural Ecology
	7.3	Developing Tanistry: Denying Dynastic Rulership
	7.4	The Metamorphosis: Arguing for the Chinese Absorptive Empire
	7.5	The Theory of Universal Rulership: Degrading the Great Khan
	7.6	A Roman Insight: Defining Emperorship and Empire
8
The Nomadic Leviathan: Extrahuman Transportation and the Military Constitution
	8.1	Debunking the Circumscription Theory
	8.2	Extrahuman Transportation: Mobility, Nomadism, and Civilization
	8.3 Pastoral Nomadism: Labor Efficiency and the
Military Establishment
	8.4	The State: Warband, City, and Tribe
	8.5	The Nomadic Leviathan: The Military Constitution
9
The Tribal Inner Asia: Biblical Ethnology
	9.1	Ordo: Courts and Cities
	9.2	Inner Asian Tribal Society
	9.3	The Mosaic Ethnology: Horde to Tribe
	9.4	The Scientific Ethnology: The Leibnizian Paradigm
	9.5	The Clash of the Political and Ethnological
References
Index