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有关世界各地古代文明社会崩溃的比较研究,具有影响力的著作包括Joseph Tainter的The Collapse of Complex Societies(Cambridge:Cambridge University Press,1988),Norman Yoffee 和George Cowgill等人编辑的The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations(Tucson:University of Arizona Press, 1988)。着重关注于古代社会对环境的冲击或是这种冲击在社会崩溃过程中所扮演的角色,这样的书籍有:Clive Ponting的A Green History of the World:The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations(New York:Penguin, 1991);Charles Redman的Human Impact on Ancient Environments(Tucson:University of Arizona Press, 1999);D.M.Kammen、K.R.Smith、K.T.Rambo和M.A.K.Khalil等人编辑的Preindustrial Human Environmental Impacts:Are There Lessons for Global Change Science and Policy?(Chemosphere, volume 29, no.5, September 1994);还有Charles Redman、Steven James、Paul Fish和J.Daniel Rogers编辑的The Archaeology of Global Change:The Impact of Humans on Their Environment(Washington, D.C.:Smithsonian Books, 2004)。在古代社会比较研究中,以气候变化为切入点的有如下三本著作:Floods, Famines, and Emperors:El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations(New York:Basic Books, 1999);The Little Ice Age(New York:Basic Books, 2001);以及The Long Summer:How Climate Changed Civilization(New York:Basic Books, 2004)。

涉及国家兴衰的比较研究有Peter Turchin的Historical Dynamics:Why States Rise and Fall(Princeton, N.J.:Princeton University Press, 2003),还有Jack Goldstone的Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World(Berkeley:University of California Press, 1991).