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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100670033375
ISBN-139780670033379
eBay Product ID (ePID)43396864
Product Key Features
Number of Pages592 Pages
Publication NameCollapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
LanguageEnglish
SubjectArchaeology, Sociology / General, Social History, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Publication Year2004
TypeTextbook
AuthorJared M. Diamond
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.8 in
Item Weight32.7 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.5 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2004-057152
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Mr. Diamond...is a lucid writer with an ability to make arcane scientific concepts readiily accesible to the lay reader, and his case studies of failed cultures are never less than compelling." - The New York Times "... Collapse is a magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm." - Businessweek " Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse represent one of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation. They are magnificent books: extraordinary in erudition and originality, compelling in their ability to relate the digitized pandemonium of the present to the hushed agrarian sunrises of the far past. I read both thinking what literature might be like if every author knew so much, wrote so clearly and formed arguments with such care." - Gregg Easterbrook , The New York Times Book Review, "Mr. Diamond...is a lucid writer with an ability to make arcane scientific concepts readiily accesible to the lay reader, and his case studies of failed cultures are never less than compelling." -- The New York Times "... Collapse is a magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm." -- Businessweek " Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse represent one of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation. They are magnificent books: extraordinary in erudition and originality, compelling in their ability to relate the digitized pandemonium of the present to the hushed agrarian sunrises of the far past. I read both thinking what literature might be like if every author knew so much, wrote so clearly and formed arguments with such care." -- Gregg Easterbrook , The New York Times Book Review, "Mr. Diamond...is a lucid writer with an ability to make arcane scientific concepts readiily accesible to the lay reader, and his case studies of failed cultures are never less than compelling."-- The New York Times "... Collapse is a magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm."-- Businessweek " Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse represent one of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation. They are magnificent books: extraordinary in erudition and originality, compelling in their ability to relate the digitized pandemonium of the present to the hushed agrarian sunrises of the far past. I read both thinking what literature might be like if every author knew so much, wrote so clearly and formed arguments with such care."-- Gregg Easterbrook , The New York Times Book Review
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal304.2/8
Grade ToUP
Table Of ContentCONTENTS List of Maps xiii Prologue: A Tale of Two Farms 1 Two farms Collapses, past and present Vanished Edens? A five-point framework Businesses and the environment The comparative method Plan of the book Part One: MODERN MONTANA 25 Chapter 1: Under Montana’s Big Sky 27 Stan Falkow’s story Montana and me Why begin with Montana? Montana’s economic history Mining Forests Soil Water Native and non-native species Differing visions Attitudes towards regulation Rick Laible’s story Chip Pigman’s story Tim Huls’s story John Cook’s story Montana, model of the world Part Two: PAST SOCIETIES 77 Chapter 2: Twilight at Easter 79 The quarry’s mysteries Easter’s geography and history People and food Chiefs, clans, and commoners Platforms and statues Carving, transporting, erecting The vanished forest Consequences for society Europeans and explanations Why was Easter fragile? Easter as metaphor Chapter 3: The Last People Alive: Pitcairn and Henderson Islands 120 Pitcairn before the Bounty Three dissimilar islands Trade The movie’s ending Chapter 4: The Ancient Ones: The Anasazi and Their Neighbors 136 Desert farmers Tree rings Agricultural strategies Chaco’s problems and packrats Regional integration Chaco’s decline and end Chaco’s message Chapter 5: The Maya Collapses 157 Mysteries of lost 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 178 Experiments in the Atlantic The Viking explosion Autocatalysis Viking agriculture Iron Viking chiefs Viking religion Orkneys, Shetlands, Faeroes Iceland’s environment Iceland’s history Iceland in context Vinland Chapter 7: Norse Greenland’s Flowering 211 Europe’s outpost Greenland’s climate today Climate in the past Native plants and animals Norse settlement Farming Hunting and fishing An integrated economy Society Trade with Europe Self-image Chapter 8: Norse Greenland’s End 248 Introduction to the end Deforestation Soil and turf damage The Inuit’s predecessors Inuit subsistence Inuit/Norse relations The end Ultimate causes of the end Chapter 9: Opposite Paths to Success 277 Bottom up, top down New Guinea highlands Tikopia Tokugawa problems Tokugawa solutions Why Japan succeeded Other successes Part Three: MODERN SOCIETIES 309 Chapter 10: Malthus in Africa: Rwanda’s Genocide 311 A dilemma Events in Rwanda More than ethnic hatred Buildup in Kanama Explosion in Kanama Why it happened Chapter 11: One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories: The Dominican Republic and Haiti 329 Differences Histories Causes of divergence Dominican environmental impacts Balaguer The Dominican environment today The future Chapter 12: China, Lurching Giant 358 China’s significance Background Air, water, soil Habitat, species, megaprojects Consequences Connections The future Chapter 13: Mining” Australia 378 Australia’s significance Soils Water Distance Early history Imported values Trade and immigration Land degradation&
SynopsisA study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes coverage of such cultures as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate change, poor political choices, and other factors that were pivotal to their demise. 250,000 first printing., A study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes coverage of such cultures as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate change, poor political choices, and other factors that ...
LC Classification NumberHN13.D5 2005
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Why societies choose to fail or succeed
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