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Floods, famines, and emperors : el Niño and the fate of civilizations / Brian Fagan.
- Title
- Floods, famines, and emperors : el Niño and the fate of civilizations / Brian Fagan.
- Author
- Fagan, Brian M.
- Publication
- New York : Basic Books, c2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GC296.8.E4 F34 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxi, 346 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.
- Summary
- From the Publisher: In 1999, few people had thought to examine the effects of climate on civilization. Now, due in part to the groundbreaking work of archaeologist Brian Fagan, climate change is a central issue. Revised and updated ten years after its first publication, Floods, Famines and Emperors remains the definitive account of how the world's best-known climate event had an indelible impact on history.
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- Note
- "Tenth Anniversary Edition"--Cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-329) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Author's note -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Christmas Child -- 1: Great visitation -- 2: Guano happens -- 3: ENSO -- 4: North Atlantic oscillation -- Part 2: Ancient El Ninos -- 5: Time of warming -- 6: Pharaohs in crisis -- 7: Moche lords -- 8: Classic Maya collapse -- 9: Ancient ones -- Part 3: Climate Change And The Stream Of Time -- 10: Catastrophe of 1877-1878 -- 11: Drought follows the plow -- 12: El Ninos that shook the world -- 13: Fate of civilizations -- Notes and sources -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9780465005307 (alk. paper)
- 0465005306 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008035558
- OCLC
- 225875019
- SCSB-12026332
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library