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Author Diamond, Jared M.

Title Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed / Jared Diamond.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Viking, c2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  304.28 D541c 2005    ---  Available
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  304.28 D541c 2005 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  304.28 D541c 2005 c.3  ---  Lib Use Only
 Eureka Non-Fiction  304.28 Dia    ---  Available
 FSCC Non-Fiction  304.28 DIA 2005    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  304.28 Dia    ---  Available
Description xi, 575 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-560) and index.
Contents Prologue : a tale of two farms -- pt. 1 : Modern Montana. Under Montana's big sky -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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?
Subject Social history -- Case studies.
Social change -- Case studies.
Environmental policy -- Case studies.
ISBN 0670033375

 
    
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