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**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 a

Who reads Upheaval : Turning Points for Nations in Crisis?

Author

Diamond, Jared

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316409131

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Anthropology, True Crime

Rating

4.4 / 5 (1,443 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14