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In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid...

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...

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future.

A long-form documentary podcast exploring the full lifespan of the Ottoman world — from the political collapse of medieval Anatolia to the emergence of the Turkish Republic in the 1920s. This series traces how a small frontier group operating on the margins of collapsing empires grew into one of history’s longest-lasting imperial systems, and how that system adapted, struggled, and ultimately dissolved under the pressures of war, reform, nationalism, and modernity.

On February 22, 2011, a devastating earthquake shook Christchurch, killing 185 people. One hundred and fifteen of those people were in the CTV building. The building should never have been built.

The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.

Paul Friedrich delves into how the political events of 1492 to 1527 created the downfall of the cultural movement that was the Italian Renaissance and in a brief few decades closed the book on the Medieval World and opened the door to modernity. Join us on a thorough, mostly chronological examination of European politics, culture, religion, and science from 1492 to 1527. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future. Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more, our imaginations run...