
From the author of End Times 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...

Borrowing ideas from the natural science disciplines of statistical mechanics and nonlinear dynamics, Turchin (ecology and evolutionary biology, U. of Connecticut) has formulated a science of history called cliodynamics (Clio is the muse affiliated with history). Here he applies...