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Questioning CollapseQuestioning Collapse (Cambridge University Press, 2009) challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies – past and present – collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation.

Collectively, these essays demonstrate that resilience in the face of societal crises, rather than collapse, is the leitmotif of the human story from the earliest civilizations to the present.

Several students from a freshman seminar course have been kind enough to share their reactions to Collapse and Questioning Collapse with us. Read their reactions here.

The December 2009 issue of Anthropology Today contains a guest editorial by Stuart Kirsch about Jared Diamond, including a reference to Questioning Collapse. Read the full text here.

Learn more about Anthropology Today here.

On December 25, 2007 George Johnson of the New York Times wrote about Jared Diamond and the conference that inspired Questioning Collapse.

Many of the authors who would go on to contribute to Questioning Collapse are quoted. Read his article here.

In 2005, soon-to-be author of Questioning Collapse’s Chapter 13, Sustainable survival, J. R. McNeill, wrote a review of Jared Diamond’s Collapse for American Scientist.

Read the full text of that review here now.