Description: Further DetailsTitle: Questioning CollapseCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/28/2009Subtitle: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of EmpireEAN: 9780521733663ISBN: 9780521733663Publisher: Cambridge University PressDescription: Questioning Collapse challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation. In a series of highly accessible and closely argued essays, a team of internationally recognized scholars bring history and context to bear in their radically different analyses of iconic events, such as the deforestation of Easter Island, the cessation of the Norse colony in Greenland, the faltering of nineteenth-century China, the migration of ancestral peoples away from Chaco Canyon in the American southwest, the crisis and resilience of Lowland Maya kingship, and other societies that purportedly 'collapsed'. Collectively, these essays demonstrate that resilience in the face of societal crises, rather than collapse, is the leitmotif of the human story from the earliest civilizations to the present. Scrutinizing the notion that Euro-American colonial triumphs were an accident of geography, Questioning Collapse also critically examines the complex historical relationship between race and political labels of societal 'success' and 'failure'.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 226mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 520gContributor: Patricia A. McAnany (Edited by), Norman Yoffee (Edited by)Genre: HistoryType: ArchaeologyISBN-10: 0521733669Author: Norman Yoffee, Patricia A. McananyRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Release Year: 2009
Book Title: Questioning Collapse
Title: Questioning Collapse
Subtitle: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of
EAN: 9780521733663
ISBN: 9780521733663
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: Norman Yoffee (Edited by)
Genre: History
ISBN-10: 0521733669
Number of Pages: 392 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Questioning Collapse : Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Civilization, Archaeology, Imperialism, Ecology
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Nature, Political Science, Social Science, History
Author: Norman Yoffee
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
