Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed / Jared Diamond

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Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed / Jared Diamond

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DIAMOND, Jared. Author

Published by Penguin Books - 2011 , Revised Ed.

Library: Paris Champerret Turin

Source : Syracuse

Item type: Book
Language: English

Publication year: 2011
Edition no.: Revised Ed.

ISBN: 978-0-14-311700-1

Regions: MONDE - AMERIQUE DU NORD

This book studies the collapse of societies by discussing the modern world and the past. It enlightened the various types of environmental dangers societies can face and the new dangers induced by the globalization. The book is divided in three parts : the first part deals with agricultural problems in Montana, USA ; the second part deals with ancient societies such as the maya, the Angkor Wat civilisation and some others; the third part go back to modern world and deals with Australia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Rwanda and China. A case study about Easter Island illustrate the "pure" ecological collapse. @Prologue

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