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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... cities - The Maya environment . Maya agriculture . Maya history - Copán - Complexities of collapses . Wars and droughts . Collapse in the southern lowlands . The Maya message Chapter 6 : The Viking Prelude and Fugues Experiments in the ...
... 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 the Harappan Indus Valley cities in Asia , and Easter Island in the ...
... cities ? It has long been suspected that many of those mysterious abandonments were at least partly triggered by ecological problems : people inadvertently destroying the environmental resources on which their societies depended . This ...
... cities covered by jungle . As in the case of the Anasazi , the Maya illustrate the combined effects of environmental damage , population growth , and climate change without an essential role of friendly neighbors . Unlike the case with ...
... cities ; or else there are mountains but the terrain is rugged and the valleys are narrow , so one sees only a slice of the sky , as in New Guinea and the Alps ; or else there is a broad expanse of sky but it's less interesting ...
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 |