The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations - Hardcover

Fagan, Brian

 
9781596913929: The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

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A history of the planet's last global warming phase, which took place between the tenth and fifteenth centuries, traces how climate changes reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara by bringing abundance to some regions and famines to others, a phenomenon that affected trading routes and population growth.

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Brian Fagan is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books on the interaction of climate and human society have established him as a leading authority on the subject; he lectures frequently around the world. He is the editor of The Oxford Companion to Archaeology and the author of Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World; The Little Ice Age; and The Long Summer, among many other titles.

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ISBN 10:  159691601X ISBN 13:  9781596916012
Verlag: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2009
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