When Collapse Wasn't Inevitable: How Some Societies Turned Crisis Into Renewal
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Original article: "CRISES AVERTED. How A Few Past Societies Found Adaptive Reforms in the Face of Structural-Demographic Crises" - https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mw3d3r7
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