Luke Kemp
Praise for Goliath’s Curse
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 col ...
Damian Carrington, Guardian
Unlike Jared Diamond’s formative 1997 bestseller Guns, Germs and Steel, which focuses on a handful of examples (and is increasingly contested by scholars), Goliath’s Curse analyzes a massive data set t ...
Ed Simon, New York Times
An excellent survey of human history through the collapses of Goliath-like kings, states and empires . . . Kemp sees a solution in the flashing warning lights; the collective means to rise up and slay the ...
Ben East, Observer
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 col ...
Damian Carrington, Guardian
Unlike Jared Diamond’s formative 1997 bestseller Guns, Germs and Steel, which focuses on a handful of examples (and is increasingly contested by scholars), Goliath’s Curse analyzes a massive data set t ...
Ed Simon, New York Times
An excellent survey of human history through the collapses of Goliath-like kings, states and empires . . . Kemp sees a solution in the flashing warning lights; the collective means to rise up and slay the ...
Ben East, Observer
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 col ...
Damian Carrington, Guardian
Unlike Jared Diamond’s formative 1997 bestseller Guns, Germs and Steel, which focuses on a handful of examples (and is increasingly contested by scholars), Goliath’s Curse analyzes a massive data set t ...
Ed Simon, New York Times
An excellent survey of human history through the collapses of Goliath-like kings, states and empires . . . Kemp sees a solution in the flashing warning lights; the collective means to rise up and slay the ...
Ben East, Observer