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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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