Thomas Sowell wrote a spectacular book in the same vein as this. http://www.amazon.com/Conquests-And-Cultures-International-History/dp/0465014003 http://www.am

Thomas Sowell wrote a spectacular book in the same vein as this. http://www.amazon.com/Conquests-And-Cultures-International-History/dp/0465014003 http://www.amazon.com/Conquests-And-Cultures-International-H... Extraordinary amount of detail as to why war drives the rise of new civilizations.