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Author Fagan, Brian M

Title Floods, famines, and emperors : El Niño and the fate of civilizations / Brian Fagan
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Basic Books, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 284 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Part 1. The Christmas Child. The great visitation ; Guano happens ; ENSO ; The North Atlantic oscillation -- Part 2. El Niños in antiquity. A time of warming ; Pharaohs in crisis ; The Moche Lords ; The classic Maya collapse ; The ancient ones -- Part 3. Climate change and the stream of time. The little ice age ; "Drought follows the plow" ; El Niños that shook the world ; The fate of civilizations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index
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Subject Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- History
Climate and civilization.
Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- History
Climate and civilization.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
Human beings -- Effect of climate on.
Klimaatveranderingen.
Menselijk bestaan.
Wereldgeschiedenis.
SUBJECT El Niño Current. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041456
Subject Pacific Ocean -- El Niño Current.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book