Goliath's Curse (Record no. 70635)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781405974899
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd.
Distributor address : 4794/23, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi
Bill Number : TB1321
Bill Date : 1/8/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 303.4 KEM
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kemp, Luke.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Goliath's Curse
Remainder of title : The History and Future of Societal Collapse.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Luke Kemp.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc ; Penguin Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2026.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x, 579p.
Dimensions : 20cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 1161
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc For the first 300,000 years of human history, hunter-gathering Homo sapiens lived in fluid, egalitarian civilizations that thwarted any individual or group from ruling permanently. Then, around 12,000 years ago, that began to change.<br/><br/>As we reluctantly congregated in the first farms and cities, people began to rely on novel lootable resources like grain and fish for their daily sustenance. And when more powerful weapons became available, small groups began to seize control of these valuable commodities. This inequality in resources soon tipped over into inequality in power, and we started to adopt more primal, hierarchical forms of organization. Power was concentrated in masters, kings, pharaohs and emperors (and ideologies were born to justify their rule). Goliath-like states and empires – with vast bureaucracies and militaries – carved up and dominated the globe.<br/><br/>What brought them down? Whether in the early cities of Cahokia in North America or Tiwanaku in South America, or the sprawling empires of Egypt, Rome and China, it was increasing inequality and concentrations of power that hollowed these Goliaths out before an external shock brought them crashing down. These collapses were written up as apocalyptic, but in truth they were usually a blessing for most of the population.<br/><br/>Now we live in a single global Goliath. Growth obsessed, extractive institutions like the fossil fuel industry, big tech and military-industrial complexes rule our world and produce new ways of annihilating our species, from climate change to nuclear war. Our systems are now so fast, complex and interconnected that a future collapse will likely be global, swift and irreversible. All of us now face a choice: we must learn to democratically control Goliath, or the next collapse may be our last.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social Science
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social Processes
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social Change
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Luke Kemp.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 07/08/2026 Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. 1161.00   303.4 KEM 31650 07/08/2026 07/08/2026 Books
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