Background
Turchin, Peter was born on May 22, 1957 in Obninsk, Kaluga, Russia. Son of Valentin and Tatiana Turchin.
(Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turch...)
Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly original argument about the rise and fall of empires. Turchin argues that the key to the formation of an empire is a society’s capacity for collective action. He demonstrates that high levels of cooperation are found where people have to band together to fight off a common enemy, and that this kind of cooperation led to the formation of the Roman and Russian empires, and the United States. But as empires grow, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, conflict replaces cooperation, and dissolution inevitably follows. Eloquently argued and rich with historical examples, War and Peace and War offers a bold new theory about the course of world history.
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War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires by Turchin, Peter [Plume,...
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Turchin, Peter was born on May 22, 1957 in Obninsk, Kaluga, Russia. Son of Valentin and Tatiana Turchin.
Doctor of Philosophy, Duke University, Durham, 1985.
Professor University Connecticut, Storrs, since 1994.
(Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turch...)
(War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires by Tu...)
Married Olga Turchin.