- Publish date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Pegasus Yayınları
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CitationGuns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
Diamond's own foundational predecessor work establishing geographic and environmental determinants of human history.
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CitationThe Great Maya Droughts: Water, Life, and Death
Richardson B. Gill
Informs Diamond's examination of severe mega-droughts as critical triggers for the classic Maya collapse.
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CitationEaster Island, Earth Island
Paul Bahn and John Flenley
Primary archaeological source for Diamond's detailed analysis of deforestation and societal decline on Rapa Nui.
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CitationThe Collapse of Complex Societies
Joseph A. Tainter
Provides a competing economic and marginal-returns theory of societal collapse that Diamond directly evaluates.
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CitationCadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Marc Reisner
Furnishes key historical and ecological context for water management challenges in the modern American Southwest.
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CitationThe Norse Atlantic Saga
Gwyn Jones
Serves as historical reference for Norse settlement, expansion, and isolation in the North Atlantic.
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CitationA Green History of the World
Clive Ponting
Pioneering synthesis of ecological history cited for early human environmental destruction across various civilizations.
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CitationThe Maya
Michael D. Coe
Offers foundational archaeological and cultural context for the rise and socio-political structure of Maya society.
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CitationAnasazi America
David E. Stuart
Informs Diamond's reconstruction of environmental vulnerabilities and social stress in the Chaco Canyon Anasazi civilization.
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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
J. R. McNeill
Supplies comparative historical data on modern human transformation of ecosystems and natural resources.
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