In the canon
A Study of History
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1934
- Pages
- Pages 1200
A historian compares dozens of civilizations across thousands of years and argues that each one rises by answering hard challenges with creativity, then decays once its leaders stop inspiring people and start ruling by force alone.
Societies, not states, are 'the social atoms' with which students of history have to deal.
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