George Kish's scientific contributions

Citations

... The West then the rest: meat as propellant. More circumstantial evidence Ink (and blood) has been spilled over the issue of the reason for the rise of the west and we have added meat centrality to previous arguments relevant to all empire building and as advice to their builders [111][112][113][114][115][116][117][118][119][120][121][122]. Poor cooperation between agricultural empires, such as the Roman and the Ming empires (who decried milk and its products in an anti-Mongol gesture except in Zhangua province that fared better), and their "barbarian" pastoralist neighbours has been implicated in their falls (perhaps answering Needham's puzzle in the case of China as to why they were overtaken) [123,124]. ...