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Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed /

What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly...

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Main Author: Diamond, Jared M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin, 2006, ©2005.
Subjects and Genres:
Social history > Case studies.
Social change > Case studies.
Environmental policy > Case studies.
Civilization > history
Social Conditions > history
Environment
Histoire sociale > Études de cas.
Changement social > Études de cas.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Études de cas.
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
Environmental policy.
Social change.
Social history.
Culturen.
Verval (geschiedenis)
Milieufactoren.
Social conditions > Case studies.
Case studies.
History (form)
Études de cas.
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Summary: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world, Diamond traces a pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals our environment gives us.
Item Description: "First pub. in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2005. Pub. in Penguin Books 2006"--Title page verso.
Physical Description: xi, 575 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-560) and index.
ISBN: 0143036556
9780143036555

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