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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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 |
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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 |