Yoffee Norman, Cowgill George L. (eds). The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988. — xii, 333 p. — ISBN: 0-8165-1049-0.This is an excellent collection of essays on the collapse of ancient states and civilizations by historians, archaeologists...excellent overviews of the relevant research.—Contemporary SociologyOrienting collapse (Norman Yoffee).
Contexts of Civilizational Collapse: A Mesopotamian View (Robert McC. Adams).
The Collapse of Ancient Mesopotamian States and Civilization (Norman Yoffee).
The Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization (T. Patrick Culbert).
The Last Years of Teotihuacan Dominance (René Millon).
The Dissolution of the Roman Empire (G.W. Bowersock).
The Roles of the Literati and of Regionalism in the Fall of the Han Dynasty (Cho-yun Hsu).
The Role of Barbarians in the Fall of States (Bennett Bronson).
The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations as an Organizational Problem (Herbert Kaufman).
Beyond Collapse (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt).
Onward and Upward with Collapse (George L. Cowgill).