Peter Turchin is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Quantitative Analysis of Movement and Complex Population Dynamics (Princeton).
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 An important, original, and timely book-richly detailed and beautifully thought out. -Jack A. Goldstone, University of California, Davis