Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.(Ideas in Print)(book)(Book Review)

From: Habitat Australia | Date: August 1, 2005 | Copyright information

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond Allen Lane RRP: $32.95

Environmental determinism--the idea that societies are primarily reactive to their environment, with environment determining culture--has gained an ugly reputation among academics. At first glance, Jared Diamond's book Collapse may seem to promote a deterministic view of how societies fall apart, but closer reading reveals a more subtle and important argument.

Diamond suggests that many past societies, including Easter Island and the Greenland Norse, have collapsed as a result of the ...

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