Publisher's Synopsis
Jared Diamond culmina su trilogi´a con un sobrecogedor estudio de co´mo las naciones ma´s poderosas afrontan sus horas ma´s oscuras.
En Armas, ge´rmenes y acero y en Colapso, Jared Diamond ya revoluciono´ nuestra visio´n del auge y la cai´da de las civilizaciones. Ahora, el autor concluye su sensacional trilogi´a adentra´ndose en una dimensio´n psicolo´gica que complementa el impresionante universo histo´rico, geogra´fico y econo´mico recogido en su obra.
El resultado es este revelador estudio comparativo de co´mo seis pai´ses han sobrevivido en su historia reciente a crisis decisivas mediante un duro proceso de autoevaluacio´n y transformacio´n. Diamond identifica patrones en la superacio´n de la adversidad y, dirigiendo su mirada hacia el futuro, plantea que quiza´s el mundo este´ desperdiciando sus recursos y embarca´ndose en un viaje de conflicto poli´tico y declive. Una narracio´n tan e´pica como irresistible.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
"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."
