Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
"An important, original, and timely book--richly detailed and beautifully thought out."--Jack A. Goldstone, University of California, Davis"This book is clearly the state of the art in formal modeling and computer simulation of long-term historical changes in territorial states. Elegantly formulated and clearly written, it takes an important topic to a new level of formal sophistication."--Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania