War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires

War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
ISBN-10
0452288193
ISBN-13
9780452288195
Category
History
Pages
405
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Author
Peter Turchin

Description

Argues that the key to the formation of an empire lies in a society's capacity for collective action, resulting from people banding together to confront a common enemy, and describing how the growth of empires leads to a growing dichotomy between rich and poor, increasing conflict instead of cooperation, and inevitable dissolution. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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