The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization - Couverture rigide

Fagan, Brian

 
9780465022816: The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
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ISBN 10 : 0465022812 ISBN 13 : 9780465022816
Editeur : Basic Books, 2003

Synopsis

For more than a century we've known that much of human evolution occurred in an Ice Age. Starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to rise, the glaciers receded, and sea levels rose. The rise of human civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, known as the Holocene.Until very recently we had no detailed record of climate changes during the Holocene. Now we do. In this engrossing and captivating look at the human effects of climate variability, Brian Fagan shows how climate functioned as what the historian Paul Kennedy described as one of the "deeper transformations" of history--a more important historical factor than we understand.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brian Fagan is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he has written many internationally acclaimed popular books about archaeology, including The Little Ice Age , Floods, Famines, and Emperors , and The Long Summer . He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0465022812
ISBN 13 
9780465022816
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0465022820 ISBN 13 :  9780465022823
Editeur : Basic Books, 2004
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