The Institute for Research on World-Systems

eScholarship stats: History by Item for March through June, 2024

Item	Title	Total requests	2024-06	2024-05	2024-04	2024-03
9jj9j6z7	Resetting History’s Dial? A Critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity	2,198	1,804	110	126	158
6qp8x28p	Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability	1,943	1,544	113	124	162
8cs3q9xt	A review essay on End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin (Penguin Random House 2023)	578	143	128	196	111
5mv6v0r1	A Dynamic Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat	425	68	101	115	141
97p470sx	Why Has the Number of International Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded since 1960?	391	72	97	114	108
8jr9v920	The Evolution of War	348	74	79	82	113
9qx38718	Seshat: The Global History Databank	342	74	101	87	80
8bm04882	Inequality and Institutions: A Review Essay on Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson	315	54	51	88	122
74j910z1	Indo-Europeans Were the Most Historically Significant Nomads of the Steppes	312	61	70	99	82
3wc3p3hf	Early Cities in The Dawn of Everything: Shoddy Scholarship in Support of Pedestrian Conclusions	306	72	78	80	76
2cz4q2jq	The Growth and Decline of the Western Roman Empire: Quantifying the Dynamics of Army Size, Territory, and Coinage	279	59	55	93	72
0p5244s1	Understanding Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World(-)System*:Social Movements and Critical Global(ization) Studies	278	50	72	81	75
1sj9n878	Circumscription Theory of the Origins of the State: A Cross-Cultural Re-Analysis	275	41	48	86	100
981121t8	Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems	268	37	61	90	80
8kb334b6	A Textbook of Heterodox Economics	267	55	75	75	62
0g05k07v	A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience	222	45	53	65	59
04n6p4xr	Great Divergence of the 18th Century?	220	51	58	57	54
4t32q1mj	Anvil Age Economy: A Map of the Spread of Iron Metallurgy across Afro-Eurasia	219	42	48	57	72
9v71n5h4	A ‘Perfect Storm’ in the Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization? Useful Insights and Roads not Taken	218	49	60	69	40
2rf8c7zk	Explaining British Political Stability After 1832	214	37	48	47	82
29w8q73h	The Governance and Leadership of Prehispanic Mesoamerican Polities: New Perspectives and Comparative Implications	211	14	34	75	88
8r85g67d	Demographic Structural Theory: 25 Years On	209	43	39	56	71
99q0d3k2	Exploring Phenomenological Models for Societal and Technological Transitions of the Neolithic Revolution and Early Civilization Formation.	209	50	49	51	59
8xp4b5g3	Adapting to Population Growth: The Evolutionary Alternative to Malthus	205	26	54	59	66
3062j4rm	A Single Historical Continuum	202	50	54	63	35
6n09f7gr	For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight	192	46	37	61	48
79t737gt	A Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia	189	33	53	58	45
29z4c9n6	Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity: A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities	181	39	47	55	40
82s3p5hj	Toward Cliodynamics – an Analytical, Predictive Science of History	179	51	49	36	43
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)	178	42	32	61	43
2v8119hf	A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution	148	37	31	43	37
49k6n01t	Factors of Deconsolidation of the Liberal Democracy Regime. The Case of the United States of America	140	17	35	33	55
0h6758hq	Editors’ Note: New Publication Policies at Cliodynamics	136	30	33	40	33
4fz417t6	Reframing Historical Rhymes from the Dawn of Everything	134	21	37	44	32
17j8g4dv	The Benefits and Challenges of Linked Datasets for Cliodynamics and Comparative Anthropology	129	28	44	33	24
9j45z2s3	Stop making sense	128	34	21	40	33
8qq4w9q5	Mapping the Spread of Mounted Warfare	127	30	24	37	36
5536t55r	Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies	119	25	35	37	22
4h29270b	Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses	117	26	28	38	25
5j8740dz	The Roman Dominate from the Perspective of Demographic-Structural Theory	115	30	33	29	23
93b5m968	On Similarities between Biological and Social Evolutionary Mechanisms: Mathematical Modeling	115	32	20	37	26
7wn9b6mn	War, Peace, and Everything: Thoughts on Tolstoy	113	33	25	27	28
72g2v469	Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability in the United Kingdom after 1960: A Demographic Structural Analysis	111	24	25	29	33
8v75n1t9	New Patterns in Global History: A Review Essay on Strange Parallels by Victor Lieberman	106	21	24	34	27
0fz718rc	Labeling and Analyzing Historical Phenomena: Some Preliminary Challenges	101	27	13	34	27
1xt9k875	Linking “Micro” to “Macro” Models of State Breakdown to Improve Methods for Political Forecasting	101	23	25	28	25
79b6v6tv	The Silk Roads: a Mathematical Model	101	19	16	38	28
0h05w119	Evolutionary radiation of mid-Holocene lanceolate points from the highlands of the South Central Andes	100	14	26	32	28
5h97m84x	The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Facilitates Evolutionary Models of Culture Change	100	31	17	29	23
2wv6r7v3	Three Wishes for the World	99	36	18	25	20

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