Collapse
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
A work of environmental history that examines why some past societies collapsed while others endured. Jared Diamond identifies factors such as climate change, environmental damage, hostile neighbors, and trade partners, and considers how these patterns apply to the modern world.
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Ranked #258 of 1942 · 648 pages · Published 2005 · Nonfiction / History
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Book data: ISBN 9780670033379. Page count from Open Library (median of editions). Cover via Open Library Covers.