Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Collapse of Complex Societies

Joseph A. Tainter

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. 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 that accounts for collapse among diverse kinds of societies, evaluating his model and clarifying the processes of disintegration by detailed studies of the Roman, Mayan and Chacoan collapses.

Language: English

Pages: 262

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: March 29, 1990

ISBN: 052138673X

ISBN 13: 9780521386739

Collapse of Complex Societies

Joseph A. Tainter

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. 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 that accounts for collapse among diverse kinds of societies, evaluating his model and clarifying the processes of disintegration by detailed studies of the Roman, Mayan and Chacoan collapses.

Language: English

Pages: 262

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: March 29, 1990

ISBN: 052138673X

ISBN 13: 9780521386739

More books from Joseph A. Tainter

Themes in Southwest Prehistory

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Supply Side Sustainability

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change (Globalization and the Environment)

4.6/5 ( ratings)

The Way the Wind Blows: Climate Change, History, and Human Action

3.5/5 ( ratings)

复杂社会的崩溃

Supply-Side Sustainability

The Way the Wind Blows: Climate Change, History, and Human Action

Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest

Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest (Santa Fe Institute Series Book 24)

Evolving Complexity and Environmental Risk in the Prehistoric Southwest

Rate this book!

Write a review?