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Upheaval

Autor Jared Diamond
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mai 2020

Bazându-ne pe analiza datelor istorice și geografice furnizate de autor, Upheaval reprezintă o extindere metodologică semnificativă în opera lui Jared Diamond. Dacă în lucrările anterioare accentul cădea pe factorii de mediu și evolutivi, în acest volum descoperim o abordare inedită: aplicarea principiilor psihologiei individuale asupra mecanismelor de criză la nivel național. Considerăm că această perspectivă transformă analiza istorică într-un instrument de prognoză pentru stabilitatea globală.

Structura narativă urmărește parcursul a șase state care au traversat momente de cotitură — de la reconstrucția Germaniei postbelice până la reziliența Finlandei în fața presiunilor externe. Jared Diamond nu se limitează la o simplă cronică, ci extrage factori de succes și eșec care determină capacitatea unei societăți de a se reinventa. Comparabil cu Collapse în rigurozitate, Upheaval este însă actualizat pentru dinamica politică și socială a secolului XXI, oferind un cadru teoretic mult mai aplicat pe crizele imediate.

Putem afirma că acest titlu completează trilogia începută cu Guns, Germs and Steel și continuată în The World Until Yesterday. În timp ce lucrările precedente explicau ascensiunea civilizațiilor, Upheaval se concentrează pe supraviețuirea lor activă. Tonul este unul analitic, dar marcat de o notă personală, autorul folosind experiențele sale din țările studiate pentru a ancora teoriile macro în realități sociale concrete. Este o lectură esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care identitatea națională este forjată în momente de presiune extremă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316409148
ISBN-10: 0316409146
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 154 x 233 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte oferă un model de înțelegere a modului în care statele pot naviga prin crize existențiale. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă interdisciplinară — istorie, geografie și psihologie — asupra rezilienței. Este recomandată celor interesați de relații internaționale și istorie modernă care caută să înțeleagă nu doar de ce cad societățile, ci mai ales cum reușesc unele să se ridice din cenușă și să se modernizeze sub presiune.


Despre autor

Jared Mason Diamond este un geograf, istoric și ornitolog american, profesor de geografie la UCLA, recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a sintetiza domenii vaste precum antropologia, ecologia și biologia evoluționistă. Autor al unor lucrări fundamentale, Diamond a fost distins cu Premiul Pulitzer pentru Guns, Germs and Steel. Cariera sa, începută în biochimie și fiziologie, s-a orientat treptat către istoria globală, devenind unul dintre cei mai influenți intelectuali publici la nivel mondial prin volume precum The Third Chimpanzee și Collapse.


Descriere scurtă

A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick
A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.


In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. 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?
Adding a psychological dimension to the in-depth history, geography, biology, and anthropology that mark all of Diamond's books, Upheaval reveals factors influencing how both whole nations and individual people can respond to big challenges. The result is a book epic in scope, but also his most personal book yet.

Notă biografică

Jared Diamond, a noted polymath, is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among his many awards are the U.S. National Medal of Science, Japan's Cosmos Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of the international best-selling books Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, Why Is Sex Fun?, The World until Yesterday, and The Third Chimpanzee, and is the presenter of TV documentary series based on three of those books.

Recenzii

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
Fascinating globe-hopping study
As a meditation about a world on edge, it is well worth reading
Persuasive . . . runs refreshingly counter to conventional wisdom
Jared Diamond does it again: another rich, original, and fascinating chapter in the human saga-with vital lessons for our difficult times.
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.
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.
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.