01561nam a22002297a 4500 55453 55453 20191127153801.0 191001b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780521386739 Variety Books Publishers Distributors ;B-10,Street No-02,West Vinod Nagar ,Delhi-110092 ;IM2591 ;18/09/2019 930 TAI Joseph A Tainter The collapse of complex societies /Joseph A Tainter Cambridge, Cambridgeshire ; New York : Cambridge University Press , 1988. xiv, 250 pages : maps, graphs, tables ; 26 cm 4148 New studies in archaeology. Introduction to collapse -- The nature of complex societies -- The study of collapse -- Understanding collapse: the marginal productivity of sociopolitical change -- Evaluation: complexity and marginal returns in collapsing societies -- Summary and implications Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex societies in both the present and future. Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory that accounts for collapse among diverse kinds of societies, evaluating his model and clarifying the processes of disintegration by detailed studies of the Roman, Mayan and Chacoan collapses. Civilization, Ancient Joseph A Tainter BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2019-10-01 Variety Books Publishers Distributors 4148.00 0 930 TAI 26969 2019-10-01 00:00:00 2019-10-01 BOOK