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Sounds like you might be looking for something more positive but I just finished Last Days of the Incas, pretty astounding record of a society being ground out in one generation. http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Days-Incas-MacQuarrie/dp/0743260503 It's almost impossible to fathom a force of 187 Spaniards crushing an army of 30,000 Inca with no casualties but it happened. Less than a thousand men dominated a society of some 10 million people. The book has left me contemplating greed, power, technology and culture in ways I haven't in quite some time.