Record details

• ISBN: 9780143117001
• ISBN: 0143117009
• Physical Description: xii, 589 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
• Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2011.
• Copyright: c2011

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published: United States : Viking Penguin, 2005. Published in Penguin Books, 2006. Published with a new afterword in 2011.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue : a tale of two farms -- Part 1: Modern Montana : Under Montana's big sky -- Part 2: Past societies : Twilight at Easter -- The last people alive : Pitcairn and Henderson Islands -- The ancient ones : the Anasazi and their neighbors -- The Maya collapses -- The Viking prelude and fugues -- Norse Greenland's flowering -- Norse Greenland's end -- Opposite paths to success -- Part 3: Modern societies : Malthus in Africa : Rwanda's genocide -- One island, two peoples, two histories : the Dominican Republic and Haiti -- China, lurching giant -- "Mining" Australia -- Part 4: Practical lessons : Why do some societies make disastrous decisions? -- Big businesses and the environment : different conditions, different outcomes -- The world as a polder : what does it all mean to us today? -- Afterword : Angkor's rise and fall.

Target Audience Note:

1460L Lexile

Study Program Information Note:

Accelerated Reader AR UG 12.3 48 101906.

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Social history > Case studies.
Social change > Case studies.
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Case studies.