About the Book: Historian Johan Norberg examines seven of history’s great golden ages-Ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic, and the Anglosphere-exploring what drove their extraordinary cultural, scientific, and economic flourishing, and why each eventually declined. Drawing timely lessons about resilience and civilizational renewal, Peak Human asks how today’s golden age might avoid the internal fractures and external pressures that ended its predecessors, offering an engaging, historically grounded framework for understanding progress and decline.