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Peter Turchin, \"War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires\"
Pl.me | 2007 | ISBN: 0452288193 | 416 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB
From Publishers Weekly
Ranging freely from the founding of Rome to 17th-century North America, this provocative essay in \"cliodynamics\" (\"the study of processes that change with time\") searches for scientific regularities that underlie history. Ecologist and mathematician Turchin grounds his theory of preindustrial empires in the Arabic concept of asabiya, meaning a society's capacity for collective action. Empires germinate, he contends, along \"meta-ethnic frontiers\" where conflict between starkly alien peoples—Roman farmers vs. Celtic tribesmen in the fifth and sixth centuries B.C.,
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发表于 2011-1-17 00:11:09