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In 1999, few people had thought to examine the effects of climate on civilization. Now, due in part to the groundbreaking work of archaeologist Brian Fagan, climate change is a central issue. Revised and updated ten years after its first publication, Floods, Famines, and Emperors remains the definitive account of how the world's best-known climate event had an indelible impact on history.
The Christmas Child; The Great Visitation; Guano Happens; ENSO; The North Atlantic Oscillation; El Nios in Antiquity; A Time of Warming; Pharaohs in Crisis; The Moche Lords; The Classic Maya Collapse; The Ancient Ones; Climate Change and The Stream of Time; The Little Ice Age; Drought Follows the Plow; El Nios That Shook the World; The Fate of Civilizations.
Brian Fagan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he has written many internationally acclaimed books of popular archaeology, including The Great Warming, The Rape of the Nile, The Little Ice Age, and The Long Summer. He lives in Santa Barbara.
