The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civlizations - Softcover

Fagan, Brian

 
9781596916012: The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civlizations

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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. Reprint.

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Brian Fagan was born in England and spent several years doing fieldwork in Africa. He is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many books including Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World, and several books on climate history, including The Little Ice Age and The Long Summer.

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ISBN 10:  1596913924 ISBN 13:  9781596913929
Verlag: BLOOMSBURY, 2008
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