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028			_aVariety Books Publishers Distributors _b;B-10,Street No-02,West Vinod Nagar ,Delhi-110092 _c;IM2591 _d;18/09/2019
082			_a930 TAI
100			_aJoseph A Tainter
245			_aThe collapse of complex societies _c/Joseph A Tainter
260			_aCambridge, Cambridgeshire ; New York _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 1988.
300			_axiv, 250 pages _b: maps, graphs, tables _c; 26 cm
365			_b4148
490			_aNew studies in archaeology.
505			_a 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
520			_a 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.
650			_aCivilization, Ancient
700			_aJoseph A Tainter
942			_cBOOK