Floods, Famines, And Emperors

Reissued and updated ten years after its original publication, a dazzlingly original bookfar ahead of its timeexplains how the world’s best-known climate event affect ed the rise and fall of civilizations

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.

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.

www.brianfagan.com

Publisher: Basic Books
Distributor: Perseus Books Group
Publication Date: 02-10-2009
Pages: 368
Measurements: 8.00in X 5.31in X 11.80oz