War And Peace And WarList of Maps Introduction "So Peace Brings Warre and Warre Brings Peace" Part I. Imperiogenesis--The Rise of Empires 1. A Band of Adventurers Defeats a Kingdom Ermak's Conquering Cossacks 2. Life on the Edge The Transformation of Russia--and America 3. Slaughter in the Forest At the Limites of the Roman Empire 4. Asabiya in the Desert Ibn Khaldun Discovers the Key to History 5. The Myth of Self-Interest And the Science of Cooperation 6. Born to Be Wolves The Origins of Rome 7.

A Medieval Black Hole The Rise of the Great European Powers on Carolingian Marches Part II. Imperiopathosis--The Fall of Empires 8. The Other Side of the Wheel of Fortune From the Glorious Thirteenth Century into the Abyss of the Fourteenth 9. A New Idea of Renaissance Why Human Conflict Is Like a Forest Fire and an Epidemic 10. The Matthew Principle Why the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer 11. Wheels Within Wheels The Many Declines of the Roman Empire Part III. Cliodynamics--A New Kind of History 12. War and Peace and Particles The Science of History 13.

The Bowling Alley in History Measuring the Decline of Social Capital 14. The End of Empire? How the Mobile Phone Is Changing Cliodynamics Notes Acknowledgments Index.