War and peace and war : the life cycles of imperial nations /
Turchin, Peter,
War and peace and war : the life cycles of imperial nations / Peter Turchin. - New York : Pi Press, c2006. - viii, 405 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Part 1 : Imperiogenesis -- The rise of empires
1. A band of adventures defeats a kingdom / Ermak's Conquering Cossacks -- 2. Life on the edge / The transformation of Russia- and America -- 3. Slaughter in the forest / At the limites of the Roman empire -- 4. Asabiya in the desert / Ibn Kaldun discovers the key to history -- 5. The myth of self-Interest / and the science of cooperation -- 6.Born to be wolves / the origins of Rome -- A medieval black hole /The rise of the Great European powers on Carolingian Marches
Part 2: Imperiorathosis -- The fall of empires
8.The other side of the wheel of fortune / from the glorious thirteenth century into the abyss of the fourteenth -- 9. A new idea of Renaissance / why human conflict is like a forest fire and an Epidemic -- 10. The Matthew principle / why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer -- 11. Wheels with in wheels / the many declines of the Roman Empire
Part 3 : Cliodynamics -- A new kind of history
12. War and peace and particles / the science of history -- 13. The bowling Alley in history / measuring the decline of social capital -- 14. The end of Empire? / how the mobile phone is changing cliodynamics
0131499963
World history.
History--Mathematical models.
Historiometry.
900 / TUR/W
War and peace and war : the life cycles of imperial nations / Peter Turchin. - New York : Pi Press, c2006. - viii, 405 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Part 1 : Imperiogenesis -- The rise of empires
1. A band of adventures defeats a kingdom / Ermak's Conquering Cossacks -- 2. Life on the edge / The transformation of Russia- and America -- 3. Slaughter in the forest / At the limites of the Roman empire -- 4. Asabiya in the desert / Ibn Kaldun discovers the key to history -- 5. The myth of self-Interest / and the science of cooperation -- 6.Born to be wolves / the origins of Rome -- A medieval black hole /The rise of the Great European powers on Carolingian Marches
Part 2: Imperiorathosis -- The fall of empires
8.The other side of the wheel of fortune / from the glorious thirteenth century into the abyss of the fourteenth -- 9. A new idea of Renaissance / why human conflict is like a forest fire and an Epidemic -- 10. The Matthew principle / why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer -- 11. Wheels with in wheels / the many declines of the Roman Empire
Part 3 : Cliodynamics -- A new kind of history
12. War and peace and particles / the science of history -- 13. The bowling Alley in history / measuring the decline of social capital -- 14. The end of Empire? / how the mobile phone is changing cliodynamics
0131499963
World history.
History--Mathematical models.
Historiometry.
900 / TUR/W