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Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change

Jared Diamond

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How nations triumph over or succumb to crises.

If you're intrigued by the meticulous dissection of national resilience, "Upheaval" is your window into the complex world of geopolitical survival and adaptation. Jared Diamond's narrative binds together history, psychology, and science, which makes it an enlightening read, especially in our times of global uncertainty. Diamond’s approach, through the lens of various countries' experiences, could offer you some profound insights into the strengths and pitfalls that define the success or failure in responding to crises.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2019)
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ISBN: 9780141977782
Author: Jared Diamond
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 2020-05-14
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Economics, History, Politics, Sociology, Science
Goodreads rating: 3.9
(rated by 11272 readers)

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Author of the landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond has transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, at a time when crises are erupting around the world, he explores what makes certain nations resilient, and reveals the factors that influence how nations and individuals can respond to enormous challenges. In a riveting journey into the recent past, he traces how six distinctive modern nations - Finland, Chile, Indonesia, Japan, Germany and Australia - have survived defining catastrophes, and identifies patterns in their recovery. Looking ahead, he investigates the risk that the United States and other countries, faced by grave threat, are set on a course towards catastrophe. Adding a rich psychological dimension to the in-depth history, geography, biology and anthropology that underpin all of Diamond's writing, Upheaval is epic in scope, but also his most personal book yet.
 

How nations triumph over or succumb to crises.

If you're intrigued by the meticulous dissection of national resilience, "Upheaval" is your window into the complex world of geopolitical survival and adaptation. Jared Diamond's narrative binds together history, psychology, and science, which makes it an enlightening read, especially in our times of global uncertainty. Diamond’s approach, through the lens of various countries' experiences, could offer you some profound insights into the strengths and pitfalls that define the success or failure in responding to crises.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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