Historical Dynamics
Why States Rise and Fall
$112.68
- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2018
Summary
Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a synthetic approach that combines mathematical modeling with statistical analyses. Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics–why some polities at certain times expand and at other times contract–this book shows that a similar research pro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691180779 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691180776 |
| Author: | Peter Turchin |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 434g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Complexity |
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“An important, original, and timely book—richly detailed and beautifully thought out.”—Jack A. Goldstone, University of California, Davis“This book is clearly the state of the art in formal modeling and computer simulation of long-term historical changes in territorial states. Elegantly formulated and clearly written, it takes an important topic to a new level of formal sophistication.”—Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania
About The Author
Peter Turchin
Peter Turchin is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Quantitative Analysis of Movement and Complex Population Dynamics (Princeton).
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