Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed

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Auteur principal : Diamond Jared Mason (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed / Jared Diamond
Édition : [New edition with a new afterword]
Publié : New York : London , 2011
Penguin Books
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-589 p.-[24] p. de pl.)
Sujets :
  • P. xiii
  • List of maps
  • P. 1
  • Prologue : A tale of two farms
  • P. 25
  • Part one, Modern Montana
  • P. 27
  • Under Montana's big sky
  • P. 77
  • Part two, Past societies
  • P. 79
  • Twilight at easter
  • P. 120
  • The last people alive: Pitcairn and Henderson islands
  • P. 136
  • The ancient ones : the Anasazi and their neighbors
  • P. 157
  • The Maya collapses
  • P. 178
  • The viking prelude and fugues
  • P. 211
  • Norse Greenland's flowering
  • P. 248
  • Norse Greenland's end
  • P. 277
  • Opposite path to success
  • P. 309
  • Part three, Modern societies
  • P. 311
  • Malthus in Africa: Rwanda's genocide
  • P. 329
  • One island, two peoples, two histories : the Dominican Republic and Haiti
  • P. 358
  • China, lurching giant
  • P. 378
  • "Mining" Australia
  • P. 417
  • Part four, Practical lessons
  • P. 419
  • Why do some societies make disastreous decisions ?
  • P. 441
  • Big businesses and the environment : different conditions, different outcomes
  • P. 486
  • The world as a polder : what does it all mean to us today ?
  • P. 526
  • Afterword : Angkor's rise and fall.