Decline and Fall, Growth and Spread, or Resilience? Approaches to Studying How and Why Societies Change

• Published in: Journal of world history Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 497 - 525
• Main Author: Hoyer, Daniel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press 01.12.2023; University of Hawaii Press
• Subjects: Climate change; Disasters; Evaluation; Fukuyama, Francis; Inequality; Libraries; Pandemics; Political scientists; Population growth; Precedents; Regression (Civilization); Resilience; Roman civilization; Sectarian violence; Social change; Social structure; Society; Works; United States

Academic and popular libraries are filled with works seeking to uncover why some past societies collapsed, or to explain why others flourished, or why a few prove resilient against the major shocks and disasters that have doomed so many others. While we have learned much from this diverse set of sch...