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Floods, famines, and emperors : El Nino and the fate of civilizations / Brian Fagan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fagan, Brian M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climate and civilization.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects--History.
- Climatic changes.
- Human beings--Effect of climate on--History.
- Human beings.
- El Niño Current.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reissued and updated ten years after its original publication, a dazzlingly original book?far ahead of its time?explains how the world's best-known climate event affect ed the rise and fall of civilizations
- Contents:
- Contents; Author's Note; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE The Christmas Child; 1. The Great Visitation; 2. Guano Happens; 3. ENSO; 4. The North Atlantic Oscillation; PART TWO Ancient El Niños; 5. A Time of Warming; 6. Pharaohs in Crisis; 7. The Moche Lords; 8. The Classic Maya Collapse; 9. The Ancient Ones; PART THREE Climate Change and the Stream of Time; 10. The Catastrophe of 1877-1878; 11. "Drought Follows the Plow"; 12. El Niños That Shook the World; 13. The Fate of Civilizations; Notes and Sources; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780465011209
- 0465011209
- 9780786727681
- 0786727683
- OCLC:
- 429142632
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb31027 hdl
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