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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 ) Informationen zum Autor Peter Turchin is an evolutionary anthropologist and one of the founders of the new field of historical social science, Cliodynamics (peterturchin.com/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. More information is available at peterturchin.com. Klappentext In War and Peace and War, Peter Turchin uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history. Turchin argues that the key to the formation of an empire is a society's capacity for collective action. He demonstrates that high levels of cooperation are found where people have to band together to fight off a common enemy, and that this kind of cooperation led to the formation of the Roman and Russian empires, and the United States. But as empires grow, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, conflict replaces cooperation, and dissolution inevitably follows. Eloquently argued and rich with historical examples, War and Peace and War offers a bold new theory about the course of world history with implications for nations today. Zusammenfassung From the author of End Times In War and Peace and War, Peter Turchin uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history. Turchin argues that the key to the formation of an empire is a society's capacity for collective action. He demonstrates that high levels of cooperation are found where people have to band together to fight off a common enemy, and that this kind of cooperation led to the formation of the Roman and Russian empires, and the United States. But as empires grow, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, conflict replaces cooperation, and dissolution inevitably follows. Eloquently argued and rich with historical examples, War and Peace and War offers a bold new theory about the course of world history with implications for nations today. Inhaltsverzeichnis War And Peace And WarList of Maps Introduction "So Peace Brings Warre and Warre Brings Peace" Part I. Imperiogenesis?The Rise of Empires 1. A Band of Adventurers 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 Khaldun 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 7. A Medieval Black Hole The Rise of the Great European Powers on Carolingian Marches Part II. Imperiopathosis?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 Within Wheels The Many Declines of the Roman Empire Part III. Cliodynamics?A New Kind of History 12. War and Peace and Particles The Science of History 13. The Bowling Alley in History Measuring th...
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Peter Turchin is an evolutionary anthropologist and one of the founders of the new field of historical social science, Cliodynamics (peterturchin.com/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. More information is available at peterturchin.com.
Klappentext
In War and Peace and War, Peter Turchin uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history. Turchin argues that the key to the formation of an empire is a society's capacity for collective action. He demonstrates that high levels of cooperation are found where people have to band together to fight off a common enemy, and that this kind of cooperation led to the formation of the Roman and Russian empires, and the United States. But as empires grow, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, conflict replaces cooperation, and dissolution inevitably follows. Eloquently argued and rich with historical examples, War and Peace and War offers a bold new theory about the course of world history with implications for nations today.
Zusammenfassung
From the author of End Times
In War and Peace and War, Peter Turchin uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history. 
*Turchin argues that the key to the formation of an empire is a society’s capacity for collective action. He demonstrates that high levels of cooperation are found where people have to band together to fight off a common enemy, and that this kind of cooperation led to the formation of the Roman and Russian empires, and the United States. But as empires grow, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, conflict replaces cooperation, and dissolution inevitably follows. Eloquently argued and rich with historical examples, *War and Peace and War offers a bold new theory about the course of world history with implications for nations today.
Inhalt
War And Peace And WarList of Maps
Introduction
"So Peace Brings Warre and Warre Brings Peace"
Part I. Imperiogenesis—The Rise of Empires