New directions in commodity chain analysis of global development processes / Jane L. Collins -- Trans-local and trans-regional socio-economic structures in global development : a "horizontal' perspective / Sandra Halperin -- Changing rural scenarios and research agendas in Latin America in the...

What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the...