Floods, Famines, and Emperors : El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations.
Title:
Floods, Famines, and Emperors : El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations.
Author:
Fagan, Brian.
ISBN:
9780786727681
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (369 pages)
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.
Abstract:
Reissued and updated ten years after its original publication, a dazzlingly original bookfar ahead of its timeexplains how the world's best-known climate event affect ed the rise and fall of civilizations.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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