/lit/ - Literature

Any books on dynamics of emergence, growth and collapse of civilizations? Aspects I'm interested in are limiting stages, probabilities, multitude of factors (which are hard to define), stability and equilibria of civilized and uncivilized societies, ethics of existence of civilization opposed to non-civilization, cycles of culture maybe, population dynamics. I'm looking for different opinions, including different schools of anthropologists, luddites vs techno-optimists, authoritarians vs anarchists etc.
I'm convinced that civilization is a stochastic abberation of a mankind birthed under specific unpredictable condition after tens of thousands years of pristine existence of uncivilized people. Advancements to industrial and postindustrial society are likewise perversions of a metastable state before. But with every step forward lives of people become more miserable, chances of self-imposed collapse grow, while those of rebuilding civilization diminish. Examples of this are weapons of mass destruction, poisoning the air and water, climate change (skeptical), digging out all easily accessible minerals. My guess is that after collapse, despite factors mentioned above, industrial or highly developed agricultural civilization will re-emerge due to death of religious mindset and access to neccessary information.