In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis.
Diamond shows us how seven countries have survived defining upheavals in the recent past - from the forced opening up of Japan and the Soviet invasion of Finland to the Pinochet regime in Chile - through selective change, a process of painful self-appraisal and adaptation more commonly associated with personal trauma. Looking ahead to the future, he investigates whether the United States, and the world, are squandering their natural advantages and are on a devastating path towards catastrophe. Is this fate inevitable? Or can we still learn from the lessons of the past?
Exhibiting the awe-inspiring grasp of history, geography, economics and anthropology that marks all Diamond's work, Upheaval reveals how both nations and individuals can become more resilient. The result is a book epic in scope, but also his most personal yet.
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis.
Diamond shows us how seven countries have survived defining upheavals in the recent past - from the forced opening up of Japan and the Soviet invasion of Finland to the Pinochet regime in Chile - through selective change, a process of painful self-appraisal and adaptation more commonly associated with personal trauma. Looking ahead to the future, he investigates whether the United States, and the world, are squandering their natural advantages and are on a devastating path towards catastrophe. Is this fate inevitable? Or can we still learn from the lessons of the past?
Exhibiting the awe-inspiring grasp of history, geography, economics and anthropology that marks all Diamond's work, Upheaval reveals how both nations and individuals can become more resilient. The result is a book epic in scope, but also his most personal yet.
From 'the master storyteller of the human race' (Daily Mail), a brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't.
Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of Time magazine's best non-fiction books of all time, Collapse, a No. 1 international bestseller, and The World Until Yesterday, among other books. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.
Fascinating... I'm a big fan of everything Jared has written, and
his latest is no exception. ... I finished the book even more
optimistic about our ability to solve problems than I started.
*Bill Gates, Summer Reading Recommendations 2019*
Upheaval is bold, wide-ranging and original ... probes large and
important questions. Unlike most social scientists, Diamond can
write invigorating prose that carries the reader along with its
sweep ... It deserves to be widely read and pondered.
*The Sunday Telegraph*
A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with
crises-which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our
present global crisis.
*Yuval Noah Harari, author of 'Sapiens' and '21 Lessons for the
21st Century'*
Jared Diamond is an undisputed global star of comparative
history... Britain could learn from this book about how other
nations have dealt with turmoil... He finds intellectually
stimulating and unusual examples that provide much food for
thought.
*The Times*
Diamond writes so well, and his frame of reference (across
disciplines and languages) is so considerable, that almost
everything he describes comes across as fresh.
*The Evening Standard*
[Diamond] wears the mantle of a modern-day prophet . . . opens
textures of historical possibility. Only the most obtuse reader of
his latest book, on national resilience, could miss the signs and
portents with which it is studded ... The prophet spares us
chiselled commandments, but we have been warned.
*The Guardian*
Fascinating globe-hopping study
*The Telegraph*
As a meditation about a world on edge, it is well worth reading
*The Economist*
Persuasive . . . runs refreshingly counter to conventional
wisdom
*Bloomberg*
Jared Diamond does it again: another rich, original, and
fascinating chapter in the human saga-with vital lessons for our
difficult times.
*Steven Pinker, author of 'Enlightenment Now'*
Upheaval is a brilliant, gripping, personal account of nations in
crisis, informed by how people respond to crisis. It's an
especially timely read today, when nations are stressed and have
much to learn about how to survive big challenges. I urge you to
read it.
*Paul Ehrlich, author of 'Jaws: The Story of a Hidden
Epidemic'*
In Upheaval, I find eye-opening lessons about the political and
psychological forces that lead to crisis and then resilience, how
individuals and nations experience trauma in similar ways, and what
that suggests about our future and the world's . . . wise and
beautiful.
*Diane Ackerman, author of 'The Zookeeper's Wife'*
Jared Diamond is one of the deepest thinkers and most authoritative
writers of our time-arguably of all time-and Upheaval proves his
prescience in analyzing historical crises within nations at a time
when national crises have erupted around the world . . . No
scientist has ever won the Nobel Prize for literature. Jared
Diamond should be the first.
*Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine and author of
'Heavens on Earth'*
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