Ancient society : or researches in the lines of human progress from savagery through barbarism to civilization / Lewis Henry Morgan.

Contents;

Part I: Growth of intelligence through inventions and discoveries
Chapter 1: Ethnical periods
Chapter 2: Arts of subsistence
Chapter 3: Ratio of human progress

Part II: Growth of idea of government
Chapter 1: Organization of society upon the basis of sex
Chapter 2: The Iroquois gens
Chapter 3: The Iroquois phratry
Chapter 4: The Iroquois tribe
Chapter 5: The Iroquois confederacy
Chapter 6: Gentes in other tribes of the Ganowanian family
Chapter 7: The Aztec confederacy
Chapter 8: The Grecian gens
Chapter 9: The Grecian phratry, tribe and nation
Chapter 10: The institution of Grecian political society
Chapter 11: The Roman gens
Chapter 12: The Roman curia, tribe and populus
Chapter 13: The institution of Roman political society
Chapter 14: Change of descent from the female to the male line
Chapter 15: Gentes in other tribes of the human family

Part III: Growth of the idea of the family
Chapter 1: The ancient family
Chapter 2: The consanguine family
Chapter 3: The Punaluan family
Chapter 4: The syndyasmian and the patriarchal families
Chapter 5: The monogamian family
Chapter 6: Sequence of the institutions connected with the family

Part IV: Growth of the idea of property
Chapter 1: The three rules of inheritance
Chapter 2: The three rules of inheritance

Index : p. 564-569.