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Historical dynamics : why states rise and fall /

"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 ran...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Turchin, Peter, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2003]
Colección:Princeton studies in complexity.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Statement of the problem
  • Geopolitics
  • Collective solidarity
  • The metaethnic frontier theory
  • An empirical test of the metaethnic frontier theory
  • Ethnokinetics
  • The demographic-structural theory
  • Secular cycles in population numbers
  • Case studies
  • Mathematical appendix
  • Data summaries for the test of the metaethnic frontier theory.