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100 1 $aFagan, Brian M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79058690
245 10 $aFloods, famines, and emperors :$bel Niño and the fate of civilizations /$cBrian Fagan.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBasic Books,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $axix, 284 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tThe Christmas Child.$g1.$tThe Great Visitation.$g2.$tGuano Happens.$g3.$tENSO.$g4.$tThe North Atlantic Oscillation --$gPt. 2.$tEl Ninos in Antiquity.$g5.$tA Time of Warming.$g6.$tPharaohs in Crisis.$g7.$tThe Moche Lords.$g8.$tThe Classic Maya Collapse.$g9.$tThe Ancient Ones --$gPt. 3.$tClimate Change and the Stream of Time.$g10.$tThe Little Ice Age.$g11.$t"Drought Follows the Plow"$g12.$tEl Ninos That Shook the World.$g13.$tThe Fate of Civilizations.
520 $aClimatologists now know that El Nino and other climate anomalies have been disrupting weather patterns throughout history. But until recently, no one had asked how this new understanding of the global weather system related to archaeology and history. Droughts, floods, heat and cold put stress on cultures and force them to adapt. What determines whether they adapt successfully? How do these climate stresses affect a people's faith in the foundations of their society and the legitimacy of their rulers?
520 8 $aHow vulnerable is our own society to climate change?
520 8 $aIn this book, archaeologist Brian Fagan shows that short-term climate shifts have been a major - and hitherto unrecognized - force in history. El Nino-driven droughts have brought on the collapse of dynasties in Egypt; El Nino monsoon failures have caused historic famines in India; and El Nino floods have destroyed whole civilizations in Peru.
520 8 $aOther short-term climate changes may have caused the mysterious abandonment of the Anasazi dwellings in the American Southwest and the collapse of the ancient Maya empire, as well as changed the course of European history. This book opens a new door on our understanding of historical events.
651 0 $aEl Niño Current.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041456
650 0 $aClimatic extremes$xHistory.
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