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Table of Contents
PENGUIN BOOKS
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
PART ONE - MODERN MONTANA
CHAPTER 1 - Under Montana’s Big Sky
PART TWO - PAST SOCIETIES
CHAPTER 2 - Twilight at Easter
CHAPTER 3 - The Last People Alive: Pitcairn and Henderson Islands
CHAPTER 4 - The Ancient Ones: The Anasazi and Their Neighbors
CHAPTER 5 - The Maya Collapses
CHAPTER 6 - The Viking Prelude and Fugues
CHAPTER 7 - Norse Greenland’s Flowering
CHAPTER 8 - Norse Greenland’s End
CHAPTER 9 - Opposite Paths to Success
PART THREE - MODERN SOCIETIES
CHAPTER 10 - Malthus in Africa: Rwanda’s Genocide
CHAPTER 11 - One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories: The Dominican Republic ...
CHAPTER 12 - China, Lurching Giant
CHAPTER 13 - “Mining” Australia
PART FOUR - PRACTICAL LESSONS
CHAPTER 14 - Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?
CHAPTER 15 - Big Businesses and the Environment: Different Conditions, ...
CHAPTER 16 - The World as a Polder: What Does It All Mean to Us Today?
AFTERWORD
Acknowledgements
FURTHER READINGS
INDEX
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS