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Goliath's Curse
Kemp, Luke (Author)
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An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation . . . The lessons he has drawn are often striking: people are fundamentally egalitarian but are led to collapses by enriched, status-obsessed elites, while past collapses often improved the lives of ordinary citizens . . . scholarly, but the straight-talking Australian can also be directGuardian - Damian CarringtonUnlike Jared Diamond's formative 1997 bestseller Guns, Germs and Steel, which focuses on a handful of examples (and is increasingly contested by scholars), Goliath's Curse analyzes a massive data set through digital analysis . . . In th...
ISBN (SKU)
9781405974899
Pages
448
Weight
426g
Dimensions
198x129x35
Imprint
Penguin Books
Published
04, June, 2026
Genres
Nature & Gardening
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