Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths

Middleton, Guy D. (2017) Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107151499

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Abstract

Understanding Collapse explores the collapse of ancient civilisations, such as the Roman Empire, the Maya, and Easter Island. 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. Rather than positing a single explanatory model of collapse - economic, social, or environmental - Middleton gives full consideration to the overlooked resilience in communities of ancient peoples and the choices that they made. He offers a fresh interpretation of collapse that will be accessible to both students and scholars. The book is an engaging, introductory-level survey of collapse in the archaeology/history literature, which will be ideal for use in courses on the collapse of civilizations, sustainability, and climate change. It includes up-to-date case studies of famous and less well-known examples of collapses, and is illustrated with 25 black and white illustrations, 3 line drawings, 16 tables and 18 maps.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	V300 History by topic
Department:	Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing
Depositing User:	Paul Burns
Date Deposited:	19 Jun 2019 11:31
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2019 11:31
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/39736

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