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Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Diamond, Jared M.
Adult Nonfiction 909 D 2005
Diamond, Jared M.
Adult Nonfiction 909 D 2005
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| Contents | Page |
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| List of Maps | p. xiii |
| Prologue: A Tale of Two Farms | p. 1 |
| Two farms | |
| Collapses, past and present | |
| Vanished Edens? | |
| A five-point framework Businesses and the environment | |
| The comparative method Plan of the book | |
| Part One - Modern Montana | p. 25 |
| Chapter 1 - Under Montana's Big Sky | p. 27 |
| Stan Falkow's story Montana and me Why begin with Montana? | |
| Montana's economic history Mining Forests | |
| Soil Water Native and non-native species | |
| Differing visions Attitudes towards regulation Rick | |
| Laible's story Chip Pigman's story Tim Huls's story John Cook's story | |
| Montana, model of the world | |
| Part Two - Past Societies | p. 77 |
| Chapter 2 - Twilight at Easter | p. 79 |
| The quarry's mysteries Easter's geography and history | |
| People and food Chiefs, clans, and commoners | |
| Platforms and statues Carving, transporting, erecting | |
| The vanished forest Consequences for society | |
| Europeans and explanations Why was Easter fragile? | |
| Easter as metaphor | |
| Chapter 3 - The Last People Alive: Pitcairn and Henderson Islands | p. 120 |
| Pitcairn before the Bounty Three dissimilar islands Trade | |
| The movie's ending | |
| Chapter 4 - The Ancient Ones: The Anasazi and Their Neighbors | p. 136 |
| Desert farmers Tree rings Agricultural strategies | |
| Chaco's problems and packrats Regional integration | |
| Chaco's decline and end Chaco's message | |
| Chapter 5 - The Maya Collapses | p. 157 |
| Mysteries of lost cities | |
| The Maya environment Maya agriculture Maya history | |
| Copan Complexities of collapses Wars and droughts | |
| Collapse in the southern lowlands | |
| The Maya message | |
| Chapter 6 - The Viking Prelude and Fugues | p. 178 |
| Experiments in the Atlantic | |
| The Viking explosion Autocatalysis | |
| Viking agriculture Iron | |
| Viking chiefs | |
| Viking religion Orkneys, Shetlands, Faeroes Iceland's environment | |
| Iceland's history | |
| Iceland in context Vinland | |
| Chapter 7 - Norse Greenland's Flowering | p. 211 |
| Europe's outpost Greenland's climate today | |
| Climate in the past Native plants and animals | |
| Norse settlement Farming Hunting and fishing | |
| An integrated economy Society | |
| Trade with Europe Self-image | |
| Chapter 8 - Norse Greenland's End | p. 248 |
| Introduction to the end Deforestation Soil and turf damage | |
| The Inuit's predecessors Inuit subsistence Inuit/Norse relations | |
| The end Ultimate causes of the end | |
| Chapter 9 - Opposite Paths to Success | p. 277 |
| Bottom up, top down New Guinea highlands | |
| Tikopia Tokugawa problems | |
| Tokugawa solutions Why Japan succeeded Other successes | |
| Part Three - Modern Societies | p. 309 |
| Chapter 10 - Malthus in Africa: Rwanda's Genocide | p. 311 |
| A dilemma Events in Rwanda More than ethnic hatred | |
| Buildup in Kanama Explosion in Kanama Why it happened | |
| Chapter 11 - One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories | |
| The Dominican Republic and Haiti | p. 329 |
| Differences Histories Causes of divergence | |
| Dominican environmental impacts Balaguer | |
| The Dominican environment today The future | |
| Chapter 12 - China, Lurching Giant | p. 358 |
| China's significance Background Air, water, soil Habitat, species, megaprojects | |
| Consequences Connections The future | |
| Chapter 13 - "Mining" Australia | p. 378 |
| Australia's significance | |
| Soils Water Distance Early history | |
| Imported values Trade and immigration Land degradation& |
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