Collapse
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2011.
Format: Book
Description: xii, 589 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
"A magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm. It's also the deal of the year--the equivalent of a year's college course by an engaging, brilliant professor, all for the price of a book."
Contents:
Prologue : a tale of two farms -- Part 1: Modern Montana : Under Montana's big sky -- Part 2: Past societies : 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 Greenland's flowering -- Norse Greenland's end -- Opposite paths to success -- Part 3: Modern societies : Malthus in Africa : Rwanda's genocide -- One island, two peoples, two histories : the Dominican Republic and Haiti -- China, lurching giant -- "Mining" Australia -- Part 4: Practical lessons : Why do some societies make disastrous decisions? -- Big businesses and the environment : different conditions, different outcomes -- The world as a polder : what does it all mean to us today? -- Afterword : Angkor's rise and fall.
Subjects:
Social history -- Case studies.
Social change -- Case studies.
Environmental policy -- Case studies.
Social history -- Case studies.
Social change -- Case studies.
Environmental policy -- Case studies.
Target Audience: 1460L
ISBN:
9780143117001
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-574) and index.