Questioning collapse : human resilience, ecological vulnerability, and the aftermath of empire
| Weitere Verfasser: |
McAnany, Patricia Ann.
Yoffee, Norman. |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xvi, 374 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Why we question collapse and study human resilience, ecological vulnerability, and the aftermath of empire / Patricia A. McAnany and Norman Yaffe
- Ecological catastrophe, collapse, and the myth of "ecocide" on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) / Terry L. Hunt and Carl P. Lipo
- Did the medieval Norse society in Greenland really fail? / Joel Berglund
- Calamities without collapse : environment, economy, and society in China, ca. 1800-1949 / Kenneth Pomeranz
- Marketing conquest and the vanishing Indian : an indigenous response to Jared Diamond's archaeology of the American Southwest / Michael Wilcox
- Bellicose rulers and climatological peril? : retrofitting twenty-first-century woes on eighth-century Maya society / Patricia A. McAnany and Tomás Gallareta Negrón
- Advanced Andeans and backwater Europeans : structure and agency in the collapse of the Inca Empire / David Cahill
- Rwandan Genocide : toward an explanation in which history and culture matter / Christopher C. Taylor
- "Failed" states, societal "collapse," and ecological "disaster" : a Haitian lesson on grand theory / Drexel G. Woodson
- The power of the past : environment, aborigenes, archaeology, and a sustainable Australian society / Tim Murray
- Excusing the Haves and blaming the Have-Nots in the telling of history / Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz
- Sustainable survival / J.R. McNeill.
