War and Peace and War
The Rise and Fall of Empires
$38.69
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
27 February 2007
Summary
From the author of End Times, War and Peace and War is a work that uses expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history. The author argues that the key to the formation of an empire is a society’s capacity for collective action. High levels of cooperation are found where people have to band together to fight off a common enemy, and this kind of cooperation led to the formation of the Roman and Russian empires, and the United Sta…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780452288195 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0452288193 |
| Author: | Peter Turchin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Plume |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 27 February 2007 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 138mm x 24mm |
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Turchin’s view of [history] from the perspective of an evolutionary biologist … promises a great deal. (The Times Higher Education Supplement)
About The Author
Peter Turchin
Peter Turchin is an evolutionary anthropologist and one of the founders of the new field of historical social science, Cliodynamics. His research interests lie at the intersection of social and cultural evolution, historical macrosociology, economic history and cliometrics, mathematical modeling of long-term social processes, and the construction and analysis of historical databases.
Peter Turchin is a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut, a research associate in the School of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and the vice president of the Evolution Institute.
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