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The Emergence of Premodern States: New Perspectives on the Development of Complex Societies
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Jared Diamond, in The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
My passion for ancient history and archaeology also gives me perspective.
Eugene Linden • The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market
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Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition)
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Suddenly, processes as disparate as the creation of permanent last names, the standardization of weights and measures, the establishment of cadastral surveys and population registers, the invention of freehold tenure, the standardization of language and legal discourse, the design of cities, and the organization of transportation seemed comprehensi... See more
James C. Scott • Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)
“all civilizations eventually experience violent restructuring of material and ideological realities such as destruction or re-creation.”
Eric H. Cline • 1177 B.C.
This is typical of subsistence societies,
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
For example, economist George Steckel and anthropologist Jerome Rose (2002) examined health indicators for Prehispanic New World societies and found that the median health of individuals declined as societies grew more complex. This suggests social complexity emerges from mechanisms that promote coordinated behavior even if it is not in the best in
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