Luke Kemp

Goliath's Curse

The History and Future of Societal Collapse

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781405974899
• ISBN-10: 1405974893
• Artikelnr.: 75514671

Autorenporträt

Luke Kemp is a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge. He has a background in human geography, international relations and economics, all of which he tutored or lectured in at the Australian National University (ANU). His research has been covered by media outlets such as the New York Times, the BBC and the New Yorker.

Rezensionen

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation . . . The lessons he has drawn are often striking: people are fundamentally egalitarian but are led to collapses by enriched, status-obsessed elites, while past collapses often improved the lives of ordinary citizens . . . scholarly, but the straight-talking Australian can also be direct Damian Carrington Guardian