Understanding Collapse
Title | Understanding Collapse PDF eBook |
Author | Guy D. Middleton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2017-06-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110715149X |
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.
Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical Change
Title | Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical Change PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Strayer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2016-06-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1315503964 |
Taking the Soviet collapse - the most cataclysmic event of the recent past - as a case study, this text engages students in the exercise of historical analysis, interpretation and explanation. In exploring the question posed by the title, the author introduces and applies such organizing concepts as great power conflict, imperial decline, revolution, ethnic conflict, colonialism, economic development, totalitarian ideology, and transition to democracy in a most accessible way. Questions and controversies, and extracts from documentary and literary sources, anchor the text at key points. This book is intended for use in history and political science courses on the Soviet Union or more generally on the 20th century.
Why Communism Did Not Collapse
Title | Why Communism Did Not Collapse PDF eBook |
Author | Martin K. Dimitrov |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 391 |
Release | 2013-07-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107035538 |
Addresses the durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I.
The Collapse of Complex Societies
Title | The Collapse of Complex Societies PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Tainter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780521386739 |
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.
Collapse and Revival
Title | Collapse and Revival PDF eBook |
Author | Mr.Ayhan Kose |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2015-12-16 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1513570021 |
As the debates about the recent global recession and the subsequent recovery have clearly shown, our understanding of these questions has been very limited. This comprehensive text puts the latest global recession and ongoing recovery in perspective. With the support of a companion website and DVD, we have created several multimedia tools to help understand the basics.
Beyond Collapse
Title | Beyond Collapse PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald K. Faulseit |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 553 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0809333996 |
This book interprets how ancient civilizations responded to various stresses, including environmental change, warfare, and the fragmentation of political institutions. It focuses on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful regimes, and posits that they experienced social resilience and transformation instead of collapse.
How Everything Can Collapse
Title | How Everything Can Collapse PDF eBook |
Author | Pablo Servigne |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 2020-03-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1509541403 |
What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but we find it hard to face up to the very real possibility that these crises could produce a collapse of our entire civilization. Yet we now have a great deal of evidence to suggest that we are up against growing systemic instabilities that pose a serious threat to the capacity of human populations to maintain themselves in a sustainable environment. In this important book, Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens confront these issues head-on. They examine the scientific evidence and show how its findings, often presented in a detached and abstract way, are connected to people’s ordinary experiences – joining the dots, as it were, between the Anthropocene and our everyday lives. In so doing they provide a valuable guide that will help everyone make sense of the new and potentially catastrophic situation in which we now find ourselves. Today, utopia has changed sides: it is the utopians who believe that everything can continue as before, while realists put their energy into making a transition and building local resilience. Collapse is the horizon of our generation. But collapse is not the end – it’s the beginning of our future. We will reinvent new ways of living in the world and being attentive to ourselves, to other human beings and to all our fellow creatures.