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War and peace and war : the life cycles of imperial nations
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War and peace and war : the life cycles of imperial nations

Author: Peter Turchin
Publisher: New York : Pi Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Turchin
ISBN: 0131499963 9780131499966
OCLC Number: 61877549
Description: viii, 405 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: "So peace brings warre and warre brings peace" -- A band of adventurers defeats a Kingdom: Ermak's conquering Cossacks -- Life on the edge: the transformation of Russia, and America -- Slaughter in the forest: at the limites of the Roman Empire -- Asabiya in the desert: Ibn Khaldun discovers the key to history -- The myth of self-interest and the science of cooperation -- Born to be wolves: the origins of Rome -- A medieval black hole: the rise of the great European powers on Carolingian marches -- The other side of the wheel of fortune: from the glorious thirteenth century into the abyss of the fourteenth -- A new idea of Renaissance: why human conflict is like a forest fire and an epidemic -- The Matthew principle: why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer -- Wheels within wheels: the many declines of the Roman Empire -- War and peace and particles: the science of history -- The bowling alley in history: measuring the decline of social capital -- The end of empire?: how the mobile phone is changing cliodynamics.
Responsibility: Peter Turchin.
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