e-artnow presents Hilaire Belloc's most controversial and influential historical and sociological studies:
The Servile State
Definitions
Our Civilisation was originally Servile
How the Servile Institution was for a Time Dissolved
How the Distributive State Failed
The Capitalist State in Proportion as It Grows Perfect Grows Unstable
The Stable Solutions of this Instability
Socialism is the Easiest Apparent Solution of the Capitalist Crux
The Reformers and Reformed Are Alike Making for the Servile State
The Servile State Has Begun
Europe and Faith
What Was the Roman Empire?
What Was the Church in the Roman Empire?
What Was the "Fall" of the Roman Empire?
The Beginning of the Nations
What Happened in Britain?
The Dark Ages
The Middle Ages
What Was the Reformation?
The Defection of Britain
The Jews
The Thesis of This Book
The Denial of the Problem
The Present Phase of the Problem
The General Cause of Friction
The Special Causes of Friction
The Cause of Friction Upon Our Side
The Anti-Semite
Bolshevism
The Position in the World as a Whole
The Present Relation Between the English State and the Jews
Zionism
Our Duty
Their Duty
Various Theories
Habit or Law?