Goliath's CurseA radical retelling of human history through collapse, and what it means for our uncertain future A radical retelling of human history through collapse from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty first century and beyond. Why do civilisations collapse? Is human progress possible? Are we approaching our endgame? For the first 200,000 years of human history, hunter gathering Homo sapiens lived in fluid, egalitarian