Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed /
Diamond, Jared M.
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed / Jared Diamond. - This Edition published in 2006 - New York : Penguin Books, 2005. - 575 pages : maps ; illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-560) and index.
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 or environment gives us.
0670033375 9780140279511
2004057152
Social history--Case studies.
Social change--Case studies.
Environmental policy--Case studies.
HN13 / .D5 2005
304.2/8
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed / Jared Diamond. - This Edition published in 2006 - New York : Penguin Books, 2005. - 575 pages : maps ; illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-560) and index.
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 or environment gives us.
0670033375 9780140279511
2004057152
Social history--Case studies.
Social change--Case studies.
Environmental policy--Case studies.
HN13 / .D5 2005
304.2/8