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“This is the book on societal collapse that I had always hoped someone would write. It was worth the wait!” —Walter Scheidel, author of The Great Leveler12,000 years ago, human history changed forever when the egalitarian groups of hunter-gathering humans began to settle down and organize themselves into hierarchies. The few dominated the many, seizing control through violence. What emerged were “Goliaths”: large societies built on a collection of hierarchies that are also terrifyingly fragile, collapsing time after time across the world. Today, we live in a single, global Goliath—one that is precariously interdependent—under threat from nuclear war, climate change, and the existential risks of AI. The next collapse may be our last.In Goliath’s Curse, Cambridge scholar Luke Kemp conducts a historical autopsy on our species, from the earliest cities to the collapse of modern states like Somalia. Drawing on historical databases and the latest discoveries in archaeology and anthropology, he uncovers groundbreaking revelations:* More democratic societies tend to be more resilient.* A modern collapse is likely to be global, long-lasting, and more dire than ever before.* Collapse may be
Who reads Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Luke Kemp
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2025
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780593321355
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, World History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-24