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