Book
| Title: |
Questioning collapse : human resilience, ecological vulnerability, and the aftermath of empire / edited by Patricia A. McAnany, Norman Yoffee. |
| Published: |
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
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| Description: |
xvi, 374 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: |
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 -- |
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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. |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780521515726 (hardback) |
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0521515726 (hardback) |
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9780521733663 (pbk.) |
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0521733669 (pbk.) |
| Subject: |
Social archaeology.
Archaeology and history.
Civilization -- History.
Regression (Civilization)
Resilience (Personality trait) -- History.
Human ecology -- History.
Imperialism -- History.
Race relations -- Political aspects -- History.
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| Authors: |
McAnany, Patricia Ann.
Yoffee, Norman.
McAnany, Patricia Ann. Why we question collapse and study human resilience, ecological vulnerability, and the aftermath of empire.
McAnany, Patricia Ann. Bellicose rulers and climatological peril.
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| HOLLIS number |
011943407 |
| Link to this record |
http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu//accessible.ashx?itemid=%7clibrary%2fm%2faleph%7c011943407
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