All societies die : how to keep hope alive

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All societies die : how to keep hope alive

Samuel Cohn

Cornell University Press, 2021

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-254)

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内容説明

In All Societies Die, Samuel Cohn asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going to do about it? But he also wants us to know that there's still reason for hope. In an immersive and mesmerizing discussion Cohn considers what makes societies (throughout history) collapse. All Societies Die points us to the historical examples of the Byzantine empire, the collapse of Somalia, the rise of Middle Eastern terrorism, the rise of drug cartels in Latin America and the French Revolution to explain how societal decline has common features and themes. Cohn takes us on an easily digestible journey through history. While he unveils the past, his message to us about the present is searing. Through his assessment of past—and current—societies, Cohn offers us a new way of looking at societal growth and decline. With a broad panorama of bloody stories, unexpected historical riches, crime waves, corruption, and disasters, he shows us that although our society will, inevitably, die at some point, there's still a lot we can do to make it better and live a little longer. His quirky and inventive approach to an "end-of-the-world" scenario should be a warning. We're not there yet. Cohn concludes with a strategy of preserving and rebuilding so that we don't have to give a eulogy anytime soon.

目次

THE REALITY OF SOCIETAL DEATH 1. All Societies Die 2. Is a Fall Really a Fall? 3. The Fall of the Byzantine Empire: The Greatest Story You've Never Heard 4. The End Comes to Byzantium 5. The Environmental Causes of Violence in the Middle East 6. The French Revolution: Fighting about Taxes at the Worst Possible Time 7. How States Actually Die: The Real-Life Death of Somalia 8. Somalia after the Fall 9. What Links These Stories? TEMPTING FALSE STEPS 10. Rethinking Ecological Catastrophe 11. Rethinking Moral Crisis THINKING BIG ABOUT THINKING BIG 12. Networks of Cooperation 13. Why Bigger Is Better 14. Legitimation: So Hard to Earn, So Precious to Have 15. Psychological Foundations of Societal Survival WHAT WOULD BE LOST 16. Progress That Is Real: The Reduction of Poverty 17. Progress That Is Real: The Improvement in Health 18. Progress That Is Real: The Reduction of Violent Crime THE SEEDS OF TROUBLE 19. The Motivation to Not Cooperate: The Origins of Civilization in Raiding 20. Primitive Accumulation Today: Raiding Is Not Dead 21. he Motivation to Not Cooperate: How Europe Historically Underdeveloped Much of the World 22. What Can Go Wrong When Western Companies Invest in Poor Nations 23. Cycles of Catastrophic Debt THE HIDDEN SOURCE OF STRENGTH 24. East Asian Secrets of Economic Growth 25. Big Government and Prosperity in the United States 26. The Miracle of Airports 27. The Origins of National Technological Advantage 28. The Economic Returns to Funding Scientific Research 29. The Tax Revolt: How the Conservative Middle Class Became the Revolutionary Class of Capitalism 30. Why Tax Cuts Do Not Create Jobs CRIME, CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE 31. The Explosion of Crime in the Global South 32. The Parallel Power: The Criminal Second State 33. A Guide to Corruption for Naive Idealists 34. Technical Demoralization 35. What It Takes to Clean Up Corruption 36. Ethnic Violence: The Economic Basis of Hatred 37. Working at Creating a Culture of Hatred 38. Landlessness and Political Violence 39. Landlessness and Political Violence: The Evidence 40. The Global Land Grab 41. Population Growth and Landlessness TRIGGERS OF DESTRUCTION 42. Triggers of Destruction 43. Long-Term Booms and Busts in Capitalism 44. Technological and International Causes of Stagnation 45. Will There Be a Sixth Mensch Cycle? 46. Ever-Expanding Frontiers of Ecological Destruction 47. Why Women's Power Matters 48. Patriarchy Redux? THE CIRCLE OF SOCIETAL DEATH 49. The Circle of Societal Death 50. Triggering the Circle of Societal Death CHANGING THE CULTURE, CHANGING THE WORLD 51. Creating a Culture of Societal Survival 52. Changing the Culture of One-Third of the World: How Christianity Spread from Palestine 53. Creating a Culture of Caretaking: Women in Ancient Rome and 2000's Uganda 54. Creating Lasting Meaningful Social Reform: The Abolition of Slavery I 55. Creating Lasting Meaningful Social Reform: The Abolition of Slavery II 56. Doing the Right Thing under Impossible Conditions: Saving the Jews under Nazism 57. What You Can Do to Save the World

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