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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... developed at its peak . Writers find it tempting to draw analogies between those trajectories of human societies and the trajectories of individual human lives — to talk of a society's birth , growth , peak , senescence , and death ...
... developed modern inventiveness , efficiency , and hunting skills by around 50,000 years ago . Beginning with the first human colonization of the Australian continent around 46,000 years ago , and the subsequent prompt extinction of most ...
... developed successful forest management and continued to prosper , while Easter Island , Mangareva , and Norse Greenland failed to develop successful forest management and collapsed as a result . How can we understand such differing ...
... developed in eastern and southern North America , Montana's Native Americans before European arrival remained hunter - gatherers , even in areas where agriculture and herding are practiced today . One reason is that Montana lacked ...
... develop Daly's estate for very rich out - of - staters who wanted a second ( or even a third or fourth ) home in the beautiful valley to visit for fishing , hunting , horseback riding , and golfing a couple of times each year . The ...
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 |