War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin

War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin

From the author of End Times

In War and Peace and War, Peter Turchinuses his expertise in evolutionary biology tooffer 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.

Peter Turchin is an evolutionary anthropologist and one of the creators of Cliodynamics (peterturchin.com/cliodynamics/), a new branch of historical social science. His research focuses on social and cultural evolution, historical macrosociology, economic history and cliometrics, mathematical modeling of long-term social processes, and the creation and study of historical databases. Peter Turchin is a vice president of the Evolution Institute and a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut. He is also a research associate at the University of Oxford's School of Anthropology. Peter Turchin's website, peterturchin.com, has further information.

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ISBN 13	9780452288195
ISBN 10	0452288193
Title	War and Peace and War
Author	Peter Turchin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2007-02-27
Number of pages	416
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