Contents
Preface
1. Orienting Collapse / Norman Yoffee
2. Contexts of Civilizational Collapse: A Mesopotamian View / Robert McC. Adams
3. The Collapse of Ancient Mesopotamian States and Civilization / Norman Yoffee
4. The Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization / T. Patrick Culbert
5. The Last Years of Teotihuacan Dominance / René Millon
6. The Dissolution of the Roman Empire / G. W. Bowersock
7. The Roles of the Literati and of Regionalism in the Fall of the Han Dynasty / Cho-yun Hsu
8. The Role of Barbarians in the Fall of States / Bennet Bronson
9. The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations as an Organizational Problem / Herbert Kaufman
10. Beyond Collapse / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
11. Onward and Upward with Collapse / George L. Cowgill
Bibliography
Index