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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 02 May 1988

Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory.

• Publisher : Penguin UK
• File Size : 53,9 Mb
• Release Date : 21 March 2013

From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now

• Publisher : University of Arizona Press
• File Size : 24,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 August 2010

From the Euphrates Valley to the southern Peruvian Andes, early complex societies have risen and fallen, but in some cases they have also been reborn. Prior archaeological investigation of these

• Publisher : SIU Press
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• Release Date : 02 May 2024

This book interprets how ancient civilizations responded to various stresses, including environmental change, warfare, and the fragmentation of political institutions. It focuses on what happened during and after the decline

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 26 June 2017

In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 23 March 2014

In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• File Size : 31,6 Mb
• Release Date : 06 January 2017

Ancient Complex Societies examines the archaeological evidence for the rise and functioning of politically and socially “complex” cultures in antiquity. Particular focus is given to civilizations exhibiting positions of leadership,

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 32,7 Mb
• Release Date : 19 September 2016

Ideas abound as to why certain complex societies collapsed in the past, including environmental change, subsistence failure, fluctuating social structure and lack of adaptability. Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail? evaluates

• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
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• Release Date : 18 September 2011

For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that

• Publisher : University of Arizona Press
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• Release Date : 01 July 1991

Publikacja prac seminarium "School of American Research" które odbyło się w Santa Fe, 22-26 marca 1982 r.