Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
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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.