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

405 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In War and Peace and War, Peter Turchin uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history. Turchin argues that the key to the formation of an empire is a society's capacity for collective actio...

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