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War and peace and war : the life cycles of imperial nations / Peter Turchin.

By: Turchin, PeterMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Pi Press, c2006Description: viii, 405 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN: 0131499963Subject(s): World history | History -- Mathematical models | HistoriometryDDC classification: 900

Contents:

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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	900 TUR/W (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P02391

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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

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