War and Peace and War: The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations by Peter Turchin

War and Peace and War: The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations

Peter Turchin

405 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Why do some nations, initially small and insignificant, go on to build mighty empires, while most nations fail to do so? And why do those successful empire-builders always eventually lose their empires? Peter Turchin, a leading thinker in the high...

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