1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

2014 book by Eric H. Cline 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed File:1177 BC, Cline book.jpg Picture of the first edition book jacket Cover of the first edition Eric H. Cline Andy Caploe United States English Turning Points in Ancient History Late Bronze Age collapse Princeton University Press 2014 Print, e-book, audio book 264 2014 The New York Post's Best Books. 2014 The Australian's Best Books of the Year. 2015 The Federalist's Notable Books. 9780691140896 930.1'56-dc23 GN778.25.C55 2014 https://lccn.loc.gov/2013032059 Publisher - 1177 B.C 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed is a 2014 non-fiction book about the Late Bronze Age collapse by American archaeologist Eric H. Cline. It was published by Princeton University Press. An updated edition was published in 2021. Description The book focuses on Cline's hypothesis for the Late Bronze Age collapse of civilization, a transition period that affected the Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Cypriots, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Assyrians and Babylonians; varied heterogeneous cultures populating eight powerful and flourishing states intermingling via trade, commerce, exchange and "cultural piggybacking," despite "all the difficulties of travel and time". He presents evidence to support a "perfect storm" of "multiple interconnected failures," meaning that more than one natural and man-made cataclysm caused the disintegration and demise of an ancient civilization that incorporated "empires and globalized peoples." This ended the Bronze Age, and ended the Mycenaean, Minoan, Trojan, Hittite, and Babylonian cultures. Before this book, the leading hypothesis during previous decades attributed the civilizations' collapse mostly to Sea Peoples of unknown origin.Gopnik Adam Of Hippos and Kings New Yorker Condé Nast 19 March 2014 http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/of-hippos-and-kings limited 5 July 2017 http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10185.html 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric H. Cline Summary 2014 Princeton University Press 7 July 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170719123350/http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10185.html 2017-07-19 deadKnapp A. Bernard The Year Civilization Collapsed History Today http://www.historytoday.com/reviews/year-civilization-collapsed https://web.archive.org/web/20170719123350/http://www.historytoday.com/reviews/year-civilization-collapsed 2017-07-19 Karacic Steven Eric H. Cline, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) Bryn Mawr College August 2015 http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2015/2015-08-37.html 5 July 2017 Awards The book has won the following awards: Winner of the 2014 Award for the Best Popular Book, American Schools of Oriental Research Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Archeology & Anthropology, Association of American Publishers One of The New York Post's Best Books of 2014 One of The Federalist's Notable Books of 2015 One of The Australian's Best Books of the Year in 2014, chosen by filmmaker Bruce Beresford Selected as the 'Book of the Semester' Fall 2016, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University See also Battle of the Delta Etymology of Syria References Further reading Cline Eric H. Climate Change Doomed the Ancients The New York Times 27 May 2014 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/opinion/climate-change-doomed-the-ancients.html 3 July 2017 Knapp, A. Manning, S. End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean American Journal of Archaeology 120 1 99–149 (51 pages) January 2016 10.3764/aja.120.1.0099 10.3764/aja.120.1.0099 Book review: Warford Erin 1177 B.C. - The Year Civilization Collapsed The European Legacy 22 5 634–636 Taylor & Francis 17 Mar 2017 10.1080/10848770.2017.1304058 151497133 Book review: Hall Thomas D. (Free PDF download) A "Perfect Storm" in the Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization? Useful Insights and Roads not Taken Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution 5 1 1–12 2014 10.21237/C7clio5125316 https://escholarship.org/content/qt9v71n5h4/qt9v71n5h4.pdf?t=pfo395 free University of California (publisher). Book review: E.H. Cline 1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed... The Classical Review 65 2 611–612 2015 10.1017/S0009840X15000128 Kotsonas Antonis 165120439 External links 978-0-691-14089-6 Publisher's site for this book Professor Cline's video lecture on his book. Full text of this book available on JSTOR Category:12th century BC in Egypt Category:2014 non-fiction books Category:2014 English-language non-fiction books Category:21st-century history books Category:American non-fiction books Category:Bronze Age cultures Category:History books about the 12th century BC Category:History books about the Trojan War Category:Mycenaean Greece Category:Prehistoric Asia Category:Princeton University Press books Category:Works about societal collapse