The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization - Couverture rigide

Fagan, Brian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0465022812 ISBN 13 : 9780465022816

Editeur : Basic Books, 2003

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the long summer of the human species. In The Long Summer, Brian Fagan brings us the first detailed record of climate change during these 15,000 years of warming, and shows how this climate change gave rise to civilization. A thousand-year chill led people in the Near East to take up the cultivation of plant foods; a catastrophic flood drove settlers to inhabit Europe; the drying of the Sahara forced its inhabitants to live along the banks of the Nile; and increased rainfall in East Africa provoked the bubonic plague. The Long Summer illuminates for the first time the centuries-long pattern of human adaptation to the demands and challenges of an ever-changing climate-challenges that are still with us today.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0465022812
• ISBN 13: 9780465022816
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304