The Collapse of Complex Societies
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ISBN-13:
9780521386739
Veröffentl:
1990
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.03.1990
Seiten:
250
Autor:
Joseph Tainter
Gewicht:
465 g
Format:
244x170x15 mm
Serie:
New Studies in Archaeology
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex 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.
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction to collapse; 2. The nature of complex societies; 3. The study of collapse; 4. Understanding collapse: the marginal productivity of sociopolitical change; 5. Evaluation: complexity and marginal returns in collapsing societies; 6. Summary and implications; References; Index.
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