Bernhard Giesen was a full professor at the University of Konstanz, Germany, where he held the chair for macrosociology in the Department of History and Sociology. Werner Binder is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia.Kim-Claude Meyer works at the Research and Innovation Department for Non-Formal Education of the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth in Luxembourg.Francis Le Maitre is a lecturer in Sociology at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.

• Part I: Editors’ Introduction.- Chapter 01: Bernhard Giesen’s (r)Evolutionary Introduction to Cultural Sociology: An Extraordinary Perspective on Human Societies.- Part II: Human Societies: Twenty-five Lectures.- Chapter 02: Introduction.- Chapter 03: Simple Societies: The Basic Patterns of Social Life.- Chapter 04: The Transition to a Sedentary Life.- Chapter 05: Conquest Societies.- Chapter 06: Empires.- Chapter 07: Territorial States.- Chapter 08: Modern Nation States.- Chapter 09: Postscript: Global Regimes.

Bernhard Giesen was a full professor at the University of Konstanz, Germany, where he held the chair for macrosociology in the Department of History and Sociology. Werner Binder is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia.Kim-Claude Meyer works at the Research and Innovation Department for Non-Formal Education of the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth in Luxembourg.Francis Le Maitre is a lecturer in Sociology at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.

• Part I: Editors’ Introduction.- Chapter 01: Bernhard Giesen’s (r)Evolutionary Introduction to Cultural Sociology: An Extraordinary Perspective on Human Societies.- Part II: Human Societies: Twenty-five Lectures.- Chapter 02: Introduction.- Chapter 03: Simple Societies: The Basic Patterns of Social Life.- Chapter 04: The Transition to a Sedentary Life.- Chapter 05: Conquest Societies.- Chapter 06: Empires.- Chapter 07: Territorial States.- Chapter 08: Modern Nation States.- Chapter 09: Postscript: Global Regimes.

Bernhard Giesen was a full professor at the University of Konstanz, Germany, where he held the chair for macrosociology in the Department of History and Sociology. Werner Binder is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia.Kim-Claude Meyer works at the Research and Innovation Department for Non-Formal Education of the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth in Luxembourg.Francis Le Maitre is a lecturer in Sociology at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.

• Part I: Editors’ Introduction.- Chapter 01: Bernhard Giesen’s (r)Evolutionary Introduction to Cultural Sociology: An Extraordinary Perspective on Human Societies.- Part II: Human Societies: Twenty-five Lectures.- Chapter 02: Introduction.- Chapter 03: Simple Societies: The Basic Patterns of Social Life.- Chapter 04: The Transition to a Sedentary Life.- Chapter 05: Conquest Societies.- Chapter 06: Empires.- Chapter 07: Territorial States.- Chapter 08: Modern Nation States.- Chapter 09: Postscript: Global Regimes.