Questioning Collapse Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire

Name: Questioning Collapse Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire
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ISBN: 9780521733663

ISBN-10: 0521733669

ISBN-13: 9780521733663

Edition: 2009

Authors: Patricia A. McAnany, Norman Yoffee

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List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Figures


Contributors


Preface and Acknowledgments



Why We Question Collapse and Study Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire




Human Resilience and Ecological Vulnerability



Ecological Catastrophe, Collapse, and the Myth of "Ecocide" on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)




Did the Medieval Norse Society in Greenland Really Fail?




Calamities without Collapse: Environment, Economy, and Society in China, ca. 1800-1949




Surviving Collapse: Studies Of Societal Regeneration



Marketing Conquest and the Vanishing Indian: An Indigenous Response to Jared Diamond's Archaeology of the American Southwest




Bellicose Rulers and Gimatologkal Peril? Retrofitting Twenty-First-Century Woes on Eighth-Century Maya Society




Collapse in Ancient Mesopotamia; What Happened, What Didn't




Societies in the Aftermath of Empire



Advanced Andeans and Backward Europeans: Structure and Agency in the Collapse of the Inca Empire




Rwandan Genocide: Toward an Explanation in Which History and Culture Matter




"Failed" States, Societal "Collapse, " and Ecological "Disaster": A Haitian Lesson on Grand Theory




The Power of the Past: Environment, Aborigines, Archaeology, and a Sustainable Australian Society




Excusing the Haves and Blaming the Have-Nots in the Telling of History




Reflections On Sustainability



Sustainable Survival



Index