Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised EditionIn Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Diamond is also the author of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
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... - Easter as metaphor Chapter 3 : The Last People Alive : Pitcairn and Henderson Islands 120 Pitcairn before the Bounty - Three dissimilar islands - Trade The movie's ending 136 Chapter 4 : The Ancient Ones : The Anasazi.
... Anasazi and Their Neighbors Desert farmers • Tree rings Agricultural strategies . Chaco's problems and packrats . Regional integration . Chaco's decline and end - Chaco's message 157 178 Chapter 5 : The Maya Collapses Mysteries of lost ...
... Anasazi and Cahokia within the boundaries of the modern U.S. , the Maya cities in Central America , Moche and Tiwanaku societies in South America , Mycenean Greece and Minoan Crete in Europe , Great Zimbabwe in Africa , Angkor Wat and ...
... archaeologists telling them that the Anasazi deforested parts of the southwestern U.S. The supposed discoveries by paleontologists and archaeologists sound to some listeners like just one more racist pretext 8 A Tale of Two Farms.
Contents
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Twilight at Easter | 79 |
The Last People Alive Pitcairn and Henderson Islands | 120 |
The Ancient Ones The Anasazi and Their Neighbors | 136 |
The Maya Collapses | 157 |
The Viking Prelude and Fugues | 178 |
Norse Greenlands Flowering | 211 |
Norse Greenlands End | 248 |
China Lurching Giant | 358 |
Mining Australia | 378 |
Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous | 419 |
Big Businesses and the Environment | 441 |
The World as a Polder What Does It All Mean | 486 |
Angkors Rise and Fall | 526 |
Acknowledgments | 540 |
Index | 575 |
Opposite Paths to Success | 277 |
Malthus in Africa Rwandas Genocide | 311 |
One Island Two Peoples Two Histories | 329 |
Illustration Credits | 590 |
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition Jared Diamond Limited preview - 2011 |