Décadence

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Why America Failed shows how, from its birth as a nationof ""hustlers"" to its collapse as an empire, the tools of thecountry's expansion proved to be the instruments of its demise Why America Failed is the third and most engaging volumeof Morris Berman's trilogy on the decline …

"Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States explores the role of ritual in a variety of archaic states and generates discussion on how the decline in a state's ability to continue in its current form affected the practices of ritual and how ritual as a cultu…

"More than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Welsh revisited the bold claims made by Francis Fukuyama and the prophets of progress, who declared the triumph of Western liberal democracy and the advent of a more peaceful world. Sh…