Georgetown Peabody Library

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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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [542]-574) and index
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Collapse
Nature of contents
bibliography
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688609934
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Jared Diamond
Sub title
how societies choose to fail or succeed
Table Of 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
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