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eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for April through July, 2024

Item	Title	Total requests	Download	View-only	%Dnld
9jj9j6z7	Resetting History’s Dial? A Critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity	2,528	889	1,639	35.2%
6qp8x28p	Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability	2,032	468	1,564	23.0%
8cs3q9xt	A review essay on End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin (Penguin Random House 2023)	639	220	419	34.4%
5mv6v0r1	A Dynamic Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat	375	169	206	45.1%
97p470sx	Why Has the Number of International Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded since 1960?	355	238	117	67.0%
9qx38718	Seshat: The Global History Databank	348	81	267	23.3%
8jr9v920	The Evolution of War	307	62	245	20.2%
3wc3p3hf	Early Cities in The Dawn of Everything: Shoddy Scholarship in Support of Pedestrian Conclusions	301	126	175	41.9%
74j910z1	Indo-Europeans Were the Most Historically Significant Nomads of the Steppes	292	59	233	20.2%
981121t8	Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems	272	77	195	28.3%
2cz4q2jq	The Growth and Decline of the Western Roman Empire: Quantifying the Dynamics of Army Size, Territory, and Coinage	258	74	184	28.7%
8kb334b6	A Textbook of Heterodox Economics	254	110	144	43.3%
0p5244s1	Understanding Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World(-)System*:Social Movements and Critical Global(ization) Studies	235	26	209	11.1%
8bm04882	Inequality and Institutions: A Review Essay on Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson	235	138	97	58.7%
0g05k07v	A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience	231	61	170	26.4%
4t32q1mj	Anvil Age Economy: A Map of the Spread of Iron Metallurgy across Afro-Eurasia	227	32	195	14.1%
9v71n5h4	A ‘Perfect Storm’ in the Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization? Useful Insights and Roads not Taken	224	178	46	79.5%
3062j4rm	A Single Historical Continuum	222	60	162	27.0%
1sj9n878	Circumscription Theory of the Origins of the State: A Cross-Cultural Re-Analysis	218	39	179	17.9%
99q0d3k2	Exploring Phenomenological Models for Societal and Technological Transitions of the Neolithic Revolution and Early Civilization Formation.	204	63	141	30.9%
04n6p4xr	Great Divergence of the 18th Century?	188	20	168	10.6%
8r85g67d	Demographic Structural Theory: 25 Years On	185	60	125	32.4%
2rf8c7zk	Explaining British Political Stability After 1832	181	58	123	32.0%
6n09f7gr	For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight	179	39	140	21.8%
29z4c9n6	Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity: A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities	177	50	127	28.2%
82s3p5hj	Toward Cliodynamics – an Analytical, Predictive Science of History	170	89	81	52.4%
8xp4b5g3	Adapting to Population Growth: The Evolutionary Alternative to Malthus	169	51	118	30.2%
79t737gt	A Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia	165	57	108	34.5%
6x84w6mm	Rediscovering Democracy: A Review of The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage (Princeton University Press, 2020)	162	133	29	82.1%
2v8119hf	A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution	151	52	99	34.4%
29w8q73h	The Governance and Leadership of Prehispanic Mesoamerican Polities: New Perspectives and Comparative Implications	146	24	122	16.4%
8qq4w9q5	Mapping the Spread of Mounted Warfare	146	22	124	15.1%
17j8g4dv	The Benefits and Challenges of Linked Datasets for Cliodynamics and Comparative Anthropology	141	29	112	20.6%
0h6758hq	Editors’ Note: New Publication Policies at Cliodynamics	138	27	111	19.6%
5536t55r	Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies	135	52	83	38.5%
4fz417t6	Reframing Historical Rhymes from the Dawn of Everything	134	47	87	35.1%
4h29270b	Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses	132	39	93	29.5%
93b5m968	On Similarities between Biological and Social Evolutionary Mechanisms: Mathematical Modeling	126	25	101	19.8%
24f0h2t3	Introduction to Special Issue: Leading Scholars of the Past Comment on Dawn of Everything	125	49	76	39.2%
72g2v469	Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability in the United Kingdom after 1960: A Demographic Structural Analysis	124	36	88	29.0%
9j45z2s3	Stop making sense	123	45	78	36.6%
9gp2m9mz	Ritual Theories, the Sacred, and Social Control. A commentary on Three Wishes for the World by Harvey Whitehouse	121	13	108	10.7%
230872k1	Application of Mathematical Models to English Secular Cycles	120	19	101	15.8%
49k6n01t	Factors of Deconsolidation of the Liberal Democracy Regime. The Case of the United States of America	118	35	83	29.7%
63v195gz	Cultural Evolution and Cliodynamics	118	33	85	28.0%
7wn9b6mn	War, Peace, and Everything: Thoughts on Tolstoy	114	72	42	63.2%
5j8740dz	The Roman Dominate from the Perspective of Demographic-Structural Theory	113	41	72	36.3%
9n8560x3	State Formation in Hawai’i	113	14	99	12.4%
5h97m84x	The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Facilitates Evolutionary Models of Culture Change	111	11	100	9.9%
1xt9k875	Linking “Micro” to “Macro” Models of State Breakdown to Improve Methods for Political Forecasting	106	30	76	28.3%

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