TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turchin,Peter
TI  - War and peace and war : the life cycles of imperial nations
SN  - 0131499963
U1  - 900 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pi Press
KW  - World history
KW  - History
KW  - Mathematical models
KW  - Historiometry
N1  - Part 1 : Imperiogenesis -- The rise of empires
1. A band of adventures 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 Kaldun 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 -- A medieval black hole /The rise of the Great European powers on Carolingian Marches 

Part 2: Imperiorathosis -- 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 with in wheels / the many declines of the Roman Empire

Part 3 : Cliodynamics -- A new kind of history
12. War and peace and particles / the science of history -- 13. The bowling Alley in history / measuring the decline of social capital -- 14. The end of Empire? / how the mobile phone is changing cliodynamics
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