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Understanding collapse : ancient history and modern myths
- Title
- Understanding collapse : ancient history and modern myths / Guy D. Middleton, Newcastle University, UK.
- Author
- Middleton, Guy D.
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xx, 441 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Understanding Collapse explores the collapse of ancient civilisations, such as the Roman Empire, the Maya, and Easter Island. 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 how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted. Rather than positing a single explanatory model of collapse--economic, social, or environmental--Middleton gives full consideration to the overlooked resilience in communities of ancient peoples and the choices that they made. He offers a fresh interpretation of collapse that will be accessible to both students and scholars. The book is an engaging, introductory-level survey of collapse in the archaeology/history literature, which will be ideal for use in courses on the collapse of civilizations, sustainability, and climate change. It includes up-to-date case studies of famous and less well-known examples of collapses, and is illustrated with 25 black and white illustrations, 3 line drawings, 16 tables and 18 maps"--
- Subjects
- Environmental archaeology
- Resilience (Personality trait) > Social aspects > History > To 1500
- Social archaeology
- History > Errors, inventions, etc
- Social change > History > To 1500
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
- History, Ancient
- Civilization, Ancient
- Human ecology > History > To 1500
- Complexity (Philosophy) > Social aspects > History > To 1500
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introducing collapse -- 2. Egypt : the Old Kingdom falls -- 3. Akkad : the end of the world's first empire -- 4. The Indus Valley : a truly lost civilisation? -- 5. The end of Minoan Crete -- 6. The kingdoms of Mycenaean Greece -- 7. The Hittites and the Eastern Mediterranean -- 8. The fall of the Western Roman Empire -- 9. Collapse and revolution in Mesoamerica -- 10. The classic Maya collapse -- 11. Collapse in the Andes -- 12. Angkor and the Khmer -- 13. The incredible survival of Rapa Nui -- Conclusions.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-7036
- ISBN
- 9781107151499
- 110715149X
- 9781316606070
- 1316606074
- LCCN
- 2016023884
- 40027313759
- OCLC
- 957705058
- Author
- Middleton, Guy D., author.
- Title
- Understanding collapse : ancient history and modern myths / Guy D. Middleton, Newcastle University, UK.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40027313759
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-7036