War and peace and war : the life cycles of imperial nations / Peter Turchin.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Pi Press, c2006Description: viii, 405 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN: 0131499963Subject(s): World history | History -- Mathematical models | HistoriometryDDC classification: 900Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 900 TUR/W (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P02391 |
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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