Collapse

贾雷德·戴蒙德（Jared Diamond），加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校医学院生理学教授，美国艺术与科学院、国家科学院院士，是当代少数几位探究人类社会与文明的思想家之一。戴蒙德的研究使他获奖无数，包括美国国家科学奖、美国 地理学会伯尔奖、泰勒环境贡献奖、日本国际环境和谐奖和麦克阿瑟基金会研究基金。戴蒙德的代表作《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》探讨了人类社会不平等的起源和地理成因，获1998年美国普利策奖和英国科普图书奖。

出版者:Viking Adult

作者:Jared Diamond

页数:592

出版时间:2004-12-29

价格:USD 29.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780670033379

图书标签:人文社科历史人类社会人类学社会社会学地理Jared

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In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel , Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? As in Guns, Germs, and Steel , Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies, but other societies found solutions and persisted. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society’s apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana. Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

读后感

作者按：戴蒙德去年入选全球前十大公共知识分子之列，是我非常喜爱的学者。不过，此书精彩程度并不及他之前的两部著作《枪炮、钢枪和细菌》和《性趣探秘》。 这篇书评刊于《开放时代》2003年第5期。《崩溃》如今已有中文版行世，我大概是国内最早介绍此书的人。 贾雷德.戴蒙...  

朋友问我，《崩溃》那本书写了什么，是描写大灾难吗？ 我告诉她：那本书，写的是社会为什么会走向崩溃。那本书里，戴蒙德说，环境问题一点也不新鲜——“从50000年前智人发展了现代发明、效率和狩猎技能，对环境资源的持续性管理就一直是个难题。”古人根本不是清白无辜、天真...  

《枪炮、病菌与钢铁：人类社会的命运》和《崩溃——社会如何选择成败兴亡》都是贾雷德·戴蒙德的作品，也是人类学方面杰出的普及作品。不过，我都是非常不厚道地看的电子版。 前一本书的视角是非常独特的，从农业起源和地理气候的因素分析人类发展历史中偶然中的微妙必...  

朋友问我，《崩溃》那本书写了什么，是描写大灾难吗？ 我告诉她：那本书，写的是社会为什么会走向崩溃。那本书里，戴蒙德说，环境问题一点也不新鲜——“从50000年前智人发展了现代发明、效率和狩猎技能，对环境资源的持续性管理就一直是个难题。”古人根本不是清白无辜、天真...  

书是很好的，就是…… 301页最后一段： 本段第一句（老美写作爱放中心思想的地方）： “讨论完中国的进口品，现在让我们广义地来看中国的出口品。” 接下来说来自中国或东亚的病害、虫害对美国林木造成的损害，还有中国草鱼对美国淡水生态的影响。 然后就说： “另外，中...  

用户评价

Some chapters are too dry, but some are good and acutely point out the problem of mordern society. Globalization is not always so good in the perspective of environment. Maybe we should really focus back on our local economy instead of importing and exporting so much.

Some chapters are too dry, but some are good and acutely point out the problem of mordern society. Globalization is not always so good in the perspective of environment. Maybe we should really focus back on our local economy instead of importing and exporting so much.

居然在图找到中文版，希望有天可以看英文版

好像也没讲出什么来，和看了自私的基因后一样，没有变化

哎玛雅，读原版太累了