The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1988. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth, mylar dust jacket, 333 pp. VG (Pages are lightly aged, otherwise crisp and clean.). Item #160206
ISBN: 9780816510498
A collection of 11 scholarly essays first presented at a 1982 seminar. Contents: Orienting Collapse / Norman Yoffee ; Contexts of Civilizational Collapse: A Mesopotamian View / Robert McC. Adams ; The Collapse of Ancient Mesopotamian States and Civilization / Norman Yoffee ; The Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization / T. Patrick Culbert ; The Last Years of Teothihuacan Dominance / Rene Millon ; The Dissolution of the Roman Empire / G. W. Bowersock ; The Roles of the Literati and of Regionalism in the Fall of the Han Dynasty / Cho-yun Hsu ; The Role of Barbarians in the Fall of States / Bennet Bronson ; The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations as an Organizational Problem / Herbert Kaufman ; Beyond Collapse / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt ; Onward and Upward with Collapse / George L. Cowgill.
OCLC: 925286879
Price: $30.00