Crisis - Diamond, Jared
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Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals -- ranging from the forced opening of Japan by U.S. Commodore Perry's fleet, to the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, to a murderous coup or countercoup in Chile and Indonesia, to the transformations of Germany and Austria after World War Two. Because Diamond has lived and spoken the language in five of these six countries, he can present gut-wrenching histories experienced firsthand. These nations coped, to varying degrees, through mechanisms such as acknowledgment of responsibility, painfully honest self-appraisal, and…mehr

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Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals -- ranging from the forced opening of Japan by U.S. Commodore Perry's fleet, to the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, to a murderous coup or countercoup in Chile and Indonesia, to the transformations of Germany and Austria after World War Two. Because Diamond has lived and spoken the language in five of these six countries, he can present gut-wrenching histories experienced firsthand. These nations coped, to varying degrees, through mechanisms such as acknowledgment of responsibility, painfully honest self-appraisal, and learning from models of other nations. Looking to the future, Diamond examines whether the United States, Japan, and the whole world are successfully coping with the grave crises they currently face. Can we learn from lessons of the past?
Autorenporträt
Jared Diamond es profesor de geografía en la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles. Comenzó su actividad científica en el campo de la fisiología, que después amplió a la biología evolutiva y la biogeografía. Ha sido elegido miembro de la Academia de Artes y Ciencias, de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias y de la Sociedad Filosófica de Estados Unidos, y ha recibido una beca de investigación de la Fundación MacArthur, además de los premios Burr de la Sociedad Geográfica Nacional y Pulitzer en 1998 por Armas, gérmenes y acero. Ha publicado más de seiscientos artículos en revistas especializadas como Discover, Natural History, Nature y Geo. Es autor de Colapso (Debate, 2006), ¿Por qué es divertido el sexo? (Debate, 2007), El tercer chimpancé (Debate, 2008), El mundo hasta ayer (Debate 2008) y Sociedades comparadas (Debate, 2016), grandes éxitos editoriales que además han obtenido numerosos galardones.