War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (779 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0452288193 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Turchin argues that the key to the formation of an empire is a society’s capacity for collective action. Eloquently argued and rich with historical examples, War and Peace and War offers a bold new theory about the course of world history.. 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. Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly original argument about the rise and fall of empires
. He is the author of the technical work Historical Dynamics, in which he presents the statistical data behind the grand theory developed in War and Peace and War. Peter Turchin is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut
(The Times Higher Education Supplement) . TurchinÆs view of history from the perspective of an evolutionary biologist promises a great deal
Amazing This book has completely changed the way I think about the history if empires. The most amazing thing that you can see right now is how our society is responding to elite over production by making it increasingly harder for kids to get into the educated elite. Firstly, high school has become a high pressure homework laden affair. College is becoming ridiculously expensive and degrees are taking longer to get (e.g. a PT degree is now 7 years). Everyone is trying desperately to get into the elite as t. Prof. Dragon said Five Stars. Turchin is brilliant.. Asabiya y el futuro Jorge E. Dardon El libre parte de la idea de que los grandes imperios surgen en las zonas fronterizas, en las que conviven pueblos de distintas culturas. Esta convivencia, raramente pacífica, genera vínculos entre los representantes de las distintas culturas, que generan condiciones para el surgimiento de los imperios. Estos vínculos es lo que el autor denomina "asabiya", tomando como base las ideas de Ibn Jaldún, en el Magreb del siglo XIV. El libro es una aplicación de estas ide