More people, fewer states the past and future of world population and state and empire sizes - Taagepera, Rein 1933-; Nemčok, Miroslav (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
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More people and yet fewer states -- Two phases in world population growth : a novel visualization and a logical model -- Did written records give a new boost to population growth? -- From populations to empires and the role of technology -- Empires : definitions, measurements, and growth-decline curves -- Talkers, doers, regulators, and followers : a conceptual framework for states -- From pecking order to political order -- Runner empires (-3000 to -600) -- Early rider empires (-600 to +600) -- An apparent dead-end : republics -- Stirrup empires (600 to 1200) -- The last rider empires (1200 to 1800) -- Engineer empires (from 1800 on) -- How top states have become larger -- How the number of states has decreased : and what's ahead -- Population density, and connecting world and top state populations -- Growth-decline patterns and durations of empires -- Empire shapes, languages, and reigns -- Cities and empires -- How history fades - and expands -- The future of the super-cancer of the of biosphere