Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SurviveFrom the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. |
Contents
List of Maps | |
Under Montanas Big | |
Twilight at Easter | |
The Last People Alive Pitcairn and Henderson Islands | |
The Ancient Ones The Anasazi and Their Neighbors | |
The Maya Collapses | |
The Viking Prelude and Fugues | |
Norse Greenlands Flowering | |
One Island Two Peoples Two Histories The Dominican | |
China Lurching Giant | |
Mining Australia | |
Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions? | |
Big Businesses and the Environment Different Conditions | |
The World as a Polder What Does It All Mean to Us Today? | |
Angkors Rise and Fall | |
Illustration Credits | |
Norse Greenlands | |
Opposite Paths to Success | |
Malthus in Africa Rwandas Genocide | |
Acknowledgments | |
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition Jared Diamond Limited preview - 2011 |