Call number:
PIK D 120-13-0010
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: 1. Why we question collapse and study human resilience, ecological vulnerability, and the aftermath of empire ; Part I. Human Resilience and Ecological Vulnerability: ; 2. Ecological catastrophe, collapse, and the myth of 'ecocide' on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) ; 3. Did the medieval Norse society in Greenland really fail? ; 4. Calamities without collapse: environment, economy, and society in China, ca. 1800-1949 ; Part II. Surviving Collapse: Studies of Societal Regeneration: 5. Marketing conquest and the vanishing Indian: an indigenous response to Jared Diamond's archaeology of the American southwest ; 6. Bellicose rulers and climatological peril? Retrofitting 21st century woes on 8th century Maya society ; 7. Collapse in ancient Mesopotamia: what happened, what didn't ; Part III. Societies in the Aftermath of Empire:8. Advanced Andeans and backward Europeans: structure and agency in the collapse of the Inca empire ; 9. Rwandan genocide: towards an explanation in which history and culture matter ; 10. 'Failed' states, societal 'collapse', and ecological 'disaster': a Haitian lesson on grand theory ; 11. The power of the past: environment, Aborigines, archaeology, and a sustainable Australian society ; 12. Excusing the haves and blaming the have-nots in the telling of history ; Part IV. Reflections on Sustainability: 13. Sustainable survival
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XVI, 374 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:
9780521733663
Location:
A 18 - must be ordered
Branch Library:
PIK Library
