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Human history is recast through collapse, from early egalitarian societies to the rise of farms, cities, kings and empires. The result is a sweeping account of how inequality and concentrated power built the great Goliaths of the past, and how those systems eventually failed.

The final focus is the present. Climate change, nuclear risk, big tech and other extractive forces are placed within a single global system that may be more fragile than it appears. Readers looking for a broad historical argument about why societies fall and what that might mean now will find a stark, urgent perspective.