Cliodynamics

Parent: The Institute for Research on World-Systems

eScholarship stats: History by Item for May through August, 2024

Item	Title	Total requests	2024-08	2024-07	2024-06	2024-05
9jj9j6z7	Resetting History’s Dial? A Critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity	2,620	218	488	1,804	110
6qp8x28p	Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability	2,059	151	251	1,544	113
8cs3q9xt	A review essay on End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin (Penguin Random House 2023)	557	114	172	143	128
5mv6v0r1	A Dynamic Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat	350	90	91	68	101
9qx38718	Seshat: The Global History Databank	341	80	86	74	101
97p470sx	Why Has the Number of International Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded since 1960?	298	57	72	72	97
8jr9v920	The Evolution of War	297	72	72	74	79
3wc3p3hf	Early Cities in The Dawn of Everything: Shoddy Scholarship in Support of Pedestrian Conclusions	288	67	71	72	78
8kb334b6	A Textbook of Heterodox Economics	241	62	49	55	75
1sj9n878	Circumscription Theory of the Origins of the State: A Cross-Cultural Re-Analysis	239	107	43	41	48
74j910z1	Indo-Europeans Were the Most Historically Significant Nomads of the Steppes	238	45	62	61	70
4t32q1mj	Anvil Age Economy: A Map of the Spread of Iron Metallurgy across Afro-Eurasia	226	56	80	42	48
981121t8	Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems	226	44	84	37	61
0g05k07v	A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience	215	49	68	45	53
2cz4q2jq	The Growth and Decline of the Western Roman Empire: Quantifying the Dynamics of Army Size, Territory, and Coinage	209	44	51	59	55
99q0d3k2	Exploring Phenomenological Models for Societal and Technological Transitions of the Neolithic Revolution and Early Civilization Formation.	209	56	54	50	49
3062j4rm	A Single Historical Continuum	208	49	55	50	54
9v71n5h4	A ‘Perfect Storm’ in the Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization? Useful Insights and Roads not Taken	194	39	46	49	60
2rf8c7zk	Explaining British Political Stability After 1832	192	58	49	37	48
8bm04882	Inequality and Institutions: A Review Essay on Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson	189	42	42	54	51
82s3p5hj	Toward Cliodynamics – an Analytical, Predictive Science of History	180	46	34	51	49
8r85g67d	Demographic Structural Theory: 25 Years On	174	45	47	43	39
29z4c9n6	Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity: A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities	168	46	36	39	47
49k6n01t	Factors of Deconsolidation of the Liberal Democracy Regime. The Case of the United States of America	160	75	33	17	35
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)	157	56	27	42	32
17j8g4dv	The Benefits and Challenges of Linked Datasets for Cliodynamics and Comparative Anthropology	156	48	36	28	44
04n6p4xr	Great Divergence of the 18th Century?	154	23	22	51	58
6n09f7gr	For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight	150	32	35	46	37
72g2v469	Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability in the United Kingdom after 1960: A Demographic Structural Analysis	149	54	46	24	25
2v8119hf	A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution	142	34	40	37	31
79t737gt	A Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia	140	33	21	33	53
9gp2m9mz	Ritual Theories, the Sacred, and Social Control. A commentary on Three Wishes for the World by Harvey Whitehouse	140	43	48	34	15
230872k1	Application of Mathematical Models to English Secular Cycles	135	32	59	26	18
4h29270b	Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses	135	41	40	26	28
24f0h2t3	Introduction to Special Issue: Leading Scholars of the Past Comment on Dawn of Everything	134	44	52	24	14
8qq4w9q5	Mapping the Spread of Mounted Warfare	132	23	55	30	24
0h6758hq	Editors’ Note: New Publication Policies at Cliodynamics	130	32	35	30	33
8xp4b5g3	Adapting to Population Growth: The Evolutionary Alternative to Malthus	128	18	30	26	54
63v195gz	Cultural Evolution and Cliodynamics	125	34	43	31	17
4fz417t6	Reframing Historical Rhymes from the Dawn of Everything	124	34	32	21	37
93b5m968	On Similarities between Biological and Social Evolutionary Mechanisms: Mathematical Modeling	124	35	37	32	20
9j45z2s3	Stop making sense	123	40	28	34	21
5536t55r	Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies	122	24	38	25	35
2wv6r7v3	Three Wishes for the World	121	42	25	36	18
7wn9b6mn	War, Peace, and Everything: Thoughts on Tolstoy	116	29	29	33	25
5j8740dz	The Roman Dominate from the Perspective of Demographic-Structural Theory	115	31	21	30	33
9n8560x3	State Formation in Hawai’i	113	39	26	31	17
5h97m84x	The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Facilitates Evolutionary Models of Culture Change	110	28	34	31	17
0h05w119	Evolutionary radiation of mid-Holocene lanceolate points from the highlands of the South Central Andes	107	45	22	14	26
27z6248r	Human Cooperation is a Complex Problem with Many Possible Solutions: Perhaps All of Them Are True!	105	30	27	37	11

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