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- Title
- Pattern and Pressure
- Author
- Mattingly, Neil
- Publisher
- Nbm House
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798235053298
Empires do not fall because of a single villain. Markets do not crash because of one bad decision. Bodies do not fail because of one broken part. Systems fail-and reorganize-according to patterns that repeat across centuries, scales, and domains.
In Pattern and Pressure, Neil Mattingly examines forty pivotal cases through the lens of complex adaptive systems. From the Roman Empire's protocol-driven expansion and third-century crisis to the interconnected trade networks that made the Bronze Age collapse possible; from the Black Death's transmission along Mongol-era routes to the positive-feedback dynamics of inflation, financial contagion, and wealth inequality; from cancer as evolution inside the body to the microbiome as an ecological network; from the internet as a nervous system to data centers as civilization's energy-dependent memory and semiconductors as a concentrated supply-chain chokepoint-these essays reveal the same underlying architecture: feedback loops, scale mismatches, efficiency-resilience trade-offs, coevolution, and the quiet redistribution of function after shock.
Written with the precision of a systems analyst and the narrative force of a historian, the collection refuses both monocausal explanations and vague metaphors. It treats Polybius's mixed constitution as an early damping mechanism, the Late Bronze Age palace economies as information-processing systems with no backup, the smartphone as a cognitive prosthesis, open-source software as emergent coordination, and computation itself as applied thermodynamics. The result is a unified account of how order emerges, hardens, becomes brittle, and sometimes survives in unexpected places.
For readers of complex systems science, economic history, network theory, and anyone who suspects that the deepest patterns of the past still govern the present, Pattern and Pressure offers a rigorous, wide-ranging map of the forces that shape-and fracture-civilization.
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