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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable…

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Author
Jared Diamond
Publication date
2005 (second edition in 2011)
Publisher
Viking Press
Followed by
The World Until Yesterday
Language
English
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)

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Author · 1
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed → Jared Diamond
Followed by · 1
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed → The World Until Yesterday
ISBN · 1
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed → English
Media type · 1
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed → Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
OCLC · 1
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed → 62868295
Pages · 1
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed → 592
Preceded by · 1
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed → Guns, Germs, and Steel
Publication date · 1
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed → 2005 (second edition in 2011)
Publication place · 1
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed → United States

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SucceedPreceded byGuns, Germs, and Steel1.00infobox
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SucceedPublication date2005 (second edition in 2011)1.00infobox
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SucceedPublication placeUnited States1.00infobox
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SucceedPublisherViking Press1.00infobox
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SucceedSubjectHuman geography, political science, economics, history1.00infobox

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