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BL
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983880
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b738250
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| Main Entry
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Turchin, Peter,1957-
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| Title & Author
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War and peace and war : : the rise and fall of empires /\ Peter Turchin.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, N.Y. :: Penguin Group,, [2007]
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1 online resource (viii, 405 pages) :: maps
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| ISBN
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1101121076
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: 1101125454
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: 1101126914
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: 9781101121078
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: 9781101125458
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: 9781101126912
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| Notes
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"A Plume book."
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Originally published: Pi Press, 2006.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-388) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: "So peace brings warre and warre brings peace" -- pt. I. Imperiogenesis: the rise of empires. A band of adventurers defeats a kingdom: Ermak's conquering Cossacks ; Life on the edge: the transformation of Russia -- and America ; Slaughter in the forest: at the limites of the Roman empire ; Asabiya in the desert: Ibn Khaldun discovers the key to history ; The myth of self-interest: and the science of cooperation ; Born to the wolves: the origins of Rome ; A medieval black hole: the rise of the great European powers on Carolingian marches -- pt. II. Imperiopathosis: the fall of empires. The other side of the wheel of fortune: from the glorious thirteenth century into the abyss of the fourteenth ; A new idea of Renaissance: why human conflict is like a forest fire and an epidemic ; The Matthew principle: why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer ; Wheels within wheels: the many declines of the Roman empire -- pt. III. Cliodynamics: a new kind of history. War and peace and particles: the science of history ; The bowling alley in history: measuring the decline of social capital ; The end of empire?: how the mobile phone is changing Cliodynamics.
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Historiometry.
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History-- Mathematical models.
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World history.
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Historiometry.
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History-- Mathematical models.
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HISTORY-- World.
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World history.
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| Dewey Classification
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909
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D20.T87 2007eb
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