War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires by Peter Turchin

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

Peter Turchin

416 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly original argument about the rise and fall of empires. Turchin argues that the key to the formation of ...

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