The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization - Couverture souple

Fagan, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0465022820 ISBN 13 : 9780465022823

Editeur : Basic Books, 2004

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0465022820
• ISBN 13: 9780465022823
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 305
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible