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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.
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The Collapse of Complex Societies, Joseph A. Tainter
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- 1988
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- Título
- The Collapse of Complex Societies
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Joseph A. Tainter
- Editorial
- Cambridge University Press
- Publicado en
- 1988
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN10
- 052138673X
- ISBN13
- 9780521386739
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Tema histórico, Historia, Comercio, Negocios & Gestión, Ciencias políticas & Política, Política, Ciencia, Economía, Regalos para abuelo, Sociología, Sociedad, Antropología, Arqueología, Civilización, Crisis, Antropología Cultural, Historia de la Civilización, Antropología Social, Colapso de la Civilización
- Primera publicación
- 1988
- Título original
- The Collapse of Complex Societies
- Calificación
- 4,15 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.