Historical Dynamics - Why States Rise and Fall Paperback
Historical Dynamics - Why States Rise and Fall Paperback Many historical processes are dynamic. Empires expand and collapse. Populations grow and decline. Natural scientists have made great strides…
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Historical Dynamics - Why States Rise and Fall Paperback
Many historical processes are dynamic. Empires expand and collapse. Populations grow and decline.
Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a synthetic approach that combines mathematical modeling with statistical analyses. Religions spread and wither. Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics--why some polities at certain times expand and at other times contract--this book shows that a similar research program can advance our understanding of dynamical processes in history.Peter Turchin develops hypotheses from a wide range of social, political, economic, and demographic factors: geopolitics, factors affecting collective solidarity, dynamics of ethnic assimilation/religious conversion, and the interaction between population dynamics and sociopolitical stability.
He then translates these into