{"product_id":"war-and-peace-and-war-isbn-9780452288195","title":"War and Peace and War","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eEnd Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace and War, \u003c\/i\u003ePeter Turchin uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eTurchin 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, \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace and War\u003c\/i\u003e offers a bold new theory about the course of world history with implications for nations today.War And Peace And WarList of Maps\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"So Peace Brings Warre and Warre Brings Peace\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Imperiogenesis—The Rise of Empires\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. A Band of Adventurers Defeats a Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErmak's Conquering Cossacks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Life on the Edge\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Transformation of Russia—and America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Slaughter in the Forest\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt the \u003c\/i\u003eLimites\u003ci\u003e of the Roman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Asabiya in the Desert\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIbn Khaldun Discovers the Key to History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The Myth of Self-Interest\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd the Science of Cooperation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Born to Be Wolves\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Rome\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. A Medieval Black Hole\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rise of the Great European Powers on Carolingian Marches\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Imperiopathosis—The Fall of Empires\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. The Other Side of the Wheel of Fortune\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Glorious Thirteenth Century into the Abyss of the Fourteenth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. A New Idea of Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy Human Conflict Is Like a Forest Fire and an Epidemic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. The Matthew Principle\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Wheels Within Wheels\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Many Declines of the Roman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Cliodynamics—A New Kind of History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. War and Peace and Particles\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Science of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. The Bowling Alley in History\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeasuring the Decline of Social Capital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. The End of Empire?\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow the Mobile Phone Is Changing Cliodynamics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003eTurchin's view of [history] from the perspective of an evolutionary biologist . . . promises a great deal. (\u003ci\u003eThe Times Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cb\u003ePeter Turchin\u003c\/b\u003e is an evolutionary anthropologist and one of the founders of the new field of historical social science, Cliodynamics (peterturchin.com\/cliodynamics\/). His research interests lie at the intersection of social and cultural evolution, historical macrosociology, economic history and cliometrics, mathematical modeling of long-term social processes, and the construction and analysis of historical databases. Peter Turchin is a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut, a research associate in the School of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and the vice president of the Evolution Institute. More information is available at peterturchin.com.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300379218149,"sku":"NP9780452288195","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452288195.jpg?v=1767743590","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/war-and-peace-and-war-isbn-9780452288195","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}