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The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future
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The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and -- finally -- the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order.
 
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Tags: Collapse, disintegration, Sheet, Antarctica, Great
Balkan Battles: A History of the Balkan Fronts of the First World War
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Balkan Battles: A History of the Balkan Fronts of the First World WarBalkan Battles: A History of the Balkan Fronts of the First World War

The Great War had begun in the Balkans, the almost inevitable result of decades of intrigue, assassination and fratricidal conflict among a host of relatively minor nationalistic groups. In four years of seesaw combat, several local nations were recruited by the warring alliances; three were completely overrun. When the final great offensives that would end the war began on all fronts, it was only fitting that the Balkans should be the first to crack and the enemy disintegration begun there. This is the story of the crossing of broad rivers, agonizing retreats through snowy mountains and struggles in 
 
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Tags: Balkan, Balkans, begun, enemy, disintegration, World, First
Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration
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Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its DisintegrationLanguage and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration

Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic and have long been both a symptom of ethnic animosity and a cause for inflaming it. But the break-up of the Serbo-Croatian language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility within a decade is, by any previous standard of linguistic behaviour, extraordinary. Robert Greenberg describes how it happened.
 
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Tags: Serbo, Croatian, Language, Balkans, decade, Disintegration