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Why do civilizations collapse? (HIST 7): Select Resources by Civilization

Climate & Collapse

The Great Warming by Brian Fagan
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 F34 2008
Publication Date: 2008
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Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Easter Island/Rapa Nui

The Statues That Walked by Terry Hunt; Carl Lipo
Call Number: F3169 .H86 2011
Publication Date: 2011
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Inventing 'Easter Island' by Beverley Haun
Publication Date: 2008

Twilight at Easter
Chapter from Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Diamond (2011)

Questioning Collapse by Patricia A. McAnany (Editor); Norman Yoffee (Editor)
Call Number: CC72.4 .Q44 2010
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Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Han Dynasty

China Between Empires by Mark Edward Lewis;
Publication Date: 2009
Fire over Luoyang by Rafe de Crespigny
Publication Date: 2016

Long-term Inflation in the Eastern Han Dynasty: An Analysis Based on Archeological Evidence.
Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies. Chen (2011)
Anthropocene archaeology of the Yellow River, China, 5000–2000 BP.
Holocene. Kidder & Zhuang (2015)

Classic Maya Collapse

Ancient Maya by Arthur Demarest;
Call Number: F1435 .D45 2004
Publication Date: 2004
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The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context by Gyles Iannone (Editor)
Publication Date: 2014

What Maya Collapse? Terminal Classic Variation in the Maya Lowlands.
Journal of Archaeological Research (2007)
Millenary Maya Societies: Past Crises and Resilience
The Rise and Fall of the Ancient Maya: A Case Study in Political Ecology
Chapter in Sustainability or Collapse? (2011)

After Collapse by Glenn M. Schwartz (Editor); John J. Nichols (Editor)
Call Number: CB311 .A35 2010
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Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Classic Maya Collapse - Cities Abandoned!
The Great Courses, Edwin Barnhart (2015)

Taíno

Reconsidering Taíno Social Dynamics after Spanish Conquest: Gender and Class in Culture Contact Studies
American Antiquity. Deagan (2004)
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas: Archaeological Case Studies
Hofman & Keehnen (2019)
Sickness, Starvation, and Death in Early Hispaniola
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Cook (2002)
The Depopulation of Hispanic America after the Conquest
Population and Development Review. Livi-Bacci (2002)
What Became of the Taíno?
Smithsonian. Poole (2011)

Angkor and Khmer

Angkor's Rise and Fall
Chapter from Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Diamond (2011)

A History of Cambodia by David Chandler
Publication Date: 2007

The End of Angkor
Science, 2006
The demise of Angkor: Systemic vulnerability of urban infrastructure to climatic variations
Science Advances, 2018

After Collapse by Glenn M. Schwartz (Editor); John J. Nichols (Editor)
Call Number: CB311 .A35 2010
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Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Egypt: The Old Kingdom Falls

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt by Ian Shaw (Editor)
ISBN: 9780192804587
Publication Date: 2004

Pharaohs in Crisis
Chapter from Floods, Famines, and Emperors : El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations. Fagan (2009)

Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Hittites and the Eastern Mediterranean

The Kingdom of the Hittites by Trevor Bryce
Publication Date: 2006
A History of the Ancient near East Ca. 3000-323 BC by Marc Van De Mieroop
Call Number: DS62.2 .V34 2007
Publication Date: 2006
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Crisis in Context: The End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean. Knapp & Manning (2016)

Minoan Crete

Review of Aegean Prehistory VII: Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Postpalatial Crete
American Journal of Archaeology, Rehak & Younger (1998)
The Theran eruption and Minoan palatial collapse: new interpretations gained from modelling the maritime network
Antiquity. Knappett, Rivers & Evans (2011)

1177 B. C.: the year civilization collapsed by Eric H. Cline
Call Number: GN778.25 .C55 2014
Publication Date: 2014
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Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Mystery Cultures of Early Greece
The Great Courses, Gregory Aldrete (2011)

Western Roman Empire

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower by Adrian Goldsworthy
Publication Date: 2009
The Fall of Rome by Bryan Ward-Perkins
Publication Date: 2006
The Ruin of the Roman Empire by James J. O'Donnell
Call Number: DG311 .O49 2009
Publication Date: 2009
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From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms by Thomas F. X. Noble (Editor)
Publication Date: 2006
Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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When and Why Did the Roman Empire Fall?
The Great Courses, Gregory Aldrete (2019)

Assyrian Empire

Role of climate in the rise and fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Science Advances. Sinha et al. (2019)

A History of the Ancient near East Ca. 3000-323 BC by Marc Van De Mieroop
Call Number: DS62.2 .V34 2007
Publication Date: 2006
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History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer
Call Number: D57 .B38 2007
Publication Date: 2007
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Greenland Norse

Norse Greenland’s End
Chapter from Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Diamond (2011)
Norse Greenland Settlement: Reflections on Climate Change, Trade, and the Contrasting Fates of Human Settlements in the North Atlantic Islands.
Artic Anthropology. Dugmore et al. (2007)
Cultural adaptation, compounding vulnerabilities and conjunctures in Norse Greenland
PNAS. Dugmore et al. (2012)
Two millennia of North Atlantic seasonality and implications for Norse colonies
PNAS. Patterson et al. (2010)
Norse Greenland settlement and limits to adaptation
Chapter from Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance. (2009)

Questioning Collapse by Patricia A. McAnany (Editor); Norman Yoffee (Editor)
Call Number: CC72.4 .Q44 2010
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Indus Valley

Indus collapse: the end or the beginning of an Asian culture? Lawler (2008)
Infection, Disease, and Biosocial Processes at the End of the Indus Civilization. Robbins et al. (2013)
The Indus/'Harappan'/Sarasvati Civilization
Chapter from Early Civilizations of the Old World. Maisels (1999)

Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Indus Valley Civilization
The Great Courses, Michael Fisher (2016)

Mycenaean Greece

1177 B. C.: the year civilization collapsed by Eric H. Cline
Call Number: GN778.25 .C55 2014
Publication Date: 2014
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The Mycenaeans by Rodney Castleden
Publication Date: 2005

Crisis in Context: The End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean. Knapp & Manning (2016)
Structure, Dynamics, and the Final Collapse of Bronze Age Civilizations in the Second Millennium B.C.
Chapter from Hegemonic Decline: Present and Past. Friedman (2016)

Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton
Call Number: CB311 .M43 2017
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Mystery Cultures of Early Greece
The Great Courses, Gregory Aldrete (2011)

Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan. Nichols (2016)
Commoner Power: A Case Study from the Classic Period Collapse on the Oaxaca Coast. Joyce et al. (2001)
Commoner Rituals, Resistance, and the Classic-to-Postclassic Transition in Ancient Mesoamerica
Chapter from Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica. Gonlin & Lohse (2007)