Collapse

how societies choose to fail or succeed

Collapse

how societies choose to fail or succeed
Jared Diamond
Book - 2011

Who Hasn't Gazed upon the abandoned temples of Angkor Wat or the jungle-choked cities of the Maya and wondered, could the same fate happen to us? In this riveting book, Jared Diamond--whose Guns, Germs, and Steel revolutionized our understanding of history--explores how humankind's use and abuse of the environment reveal the truth behind the world's great collapses, from the Anasazi of North America to the Vikings of Greenland to modern Montana. What emerges is a fundamental pattern of environmental catastrophe--one whose warning signs surround us today and that we ignore at our peril. Blending the most recent scientific advances and a vast historical perspective into a narrative that is impossible to put down, Collapse exposes the deepest mysteries of the past even as it offers hope for the future. --

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書目詳細資料
主要作者: Diamond, Jared M.
格式: 圖書
語言:English
出版: New York : Penguin Books, 2011.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [542]-574) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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