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Secular Cycles

Peter Turchin

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

University of Connecticut

Storrs, CT, USA

and

Sergey A. Nefedov

Institute of History and Archaeology

Russian Academy of Sciences

Ekaterinburg, Russia

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Table of Contents

(Chapters last revised VIII.2007)

1 Introduction

2 Medieval England: The Plantagenet Cycle (1150–1485)

3 The Tudor Cycle (1485–1730)

4 France: the Capetian Cycle (1150–1450)

5 France: the Valois Cycle (1450–1660)

6 Rome: The Republican cycle (350–30 BCE)

7 The Cycle of the Principate

8 Russia: the Muscovite Cycle

9 The Romanov Cycle

10 General conclusion