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Title: The Collapse of Complex Societies
Series: Part of New Studies in Archaeology
Author: Joseph A. Tainter
Narrator: Brian Arens
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Release date: August 12, 2024
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
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 2,000 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. ©1988 Cambridge University Press. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.
