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Preface
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PROLOGUE
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PART I: THE MECHANISM – Understanding the Phenomenon
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CHAPTER 1: THE INTIMATE ENEMY
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CHAPTER 2: THE FIVE MECHANISMS OF ABSORPTION
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CHAPTER 3: SCALES OF ABSORPTION
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PART II: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL MIRRORS – The Pattern Across Empires
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CHAPTER 4: ROME AND GREECE – THE CAPTIVE WHO CAPTURES
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CHAPTER 5: THE MONGOLS AND CHINA – THE CONQUERORS CONSUMED
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CHAPTER 6: CHRISTIANITY AND ROME – THE PERSECUTED CULT INHERITS THE EMPIRE
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CHAPTER 7: THE CRUSADES – GOING TO DESTROY, STAYING TO LEARN
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CHAPTER 8: HABSBURGS AND OTTOMANS – THE ENEMY AT THE GATES BECOMES THE CULTURE WITHIN
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PART III: MODERN REVOLUTIONS AND IMPERIAL RECKONINGS – Ideology and Structure
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CHAPTER 9: THE BOLSHEVIKS AND THE TSAR – REVOLUTIONARY RECONSTRUCTION
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CHAPTER 10: POST-WWI GERMANY – THE INCOMPLETE VICTORY MUTATES
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CHAPTER 11: AMERICA AND JAPAN – THE BIDIRECTIONAL ABSORPTION
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PART IV: THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE – Contemporary Manifestations
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CHAPTER 12: OPERATION PAPERCLIP AND ITS SHADOW
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CHAPTER 13: THE CONFEDERATE GHOST – THE LOST WAR THAT WON THE CULTURE
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CHAPTER 14: THE INTELLIGENCE ENTANGLEMENT – HUNTERS BECOMING THE HUNTED
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CHAPTER 15: THE DIGITAL REICH – ALGORITHMIC RESURRECTION OF DEFEATED IDEOLOGIES
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CONCLUSION: SYNTHESIS WITHOUT SOLUTIONS
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