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Author Keys, David.

Title Catastrophe : an investigation into the origins of the modern world / David Keys
Edition First American edition
Published New York : Ballantine Pub., 2000

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Description xviii, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents Pt. 1. The Plague. 1. The Winepress of the Wrath of God. 2. The Origins of the Plague -- Pt. 2. The Barbarian Tide. 3. Disaster on the Steppes. 4. The Avar Dimension -- Pt. 3. Destablizing the Empire. 5. Revolution. 6. "The Cup of Bitterness" 7. Changing the Empire: The Cumulative Impact of the Plague and the Avars -- Pt. 4. The Sword of Islam. 8. The Origins of Islam. 9. Islamic Conquests. 10. Behind the Roman Collapse -- Pt. 5. The Turkic Dimension. 11. The Turkish Time Bomb. 12. The Jewish Empire -- Pt. 6. Western Europe. 13. Disaster in Britain. 14. The Waste Land. 15. The Birth of England. 16. Irish Conception. 17. French Genesis. 18. The Making of Spain -- Pt. 7. Disaster in the Orient. 19. Chinese Catastrophe. 20. The Rebirth of Unity. 21. Korean Dawn. 22. "Ten Thousand Strings of Cash Cannot Cure Hunger" -- Pt. 8. Changing the Americas. 23. Collapse of the Pyramid Empire. 24. The Darts of Venus. 25. North American Mystery. 26. From Art to Oblivion. 27. The Mud of Hades
28. Birth of an Empire. 29. Glory at the Heart of the Cosmos -- Pt. 9. The Reasons why. 30. In Search of a Culprit. 31. The Big Bang. 32. Reconstructing the Eruption. 33. The Endgame -- Pt. 10. The Future. 34. Beyond Tomorrow
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Climatic changes -- History.
Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- History.
Natural disasters -- History.
Weather -- Effect of volcanic eruptions on.
Asteroids -- Collisions with Earth.
LC no. 99014357
ISBN 0345408764 alkaline paper