Floods, Famines, and Emperors - by Brian Fagan (Paperback)

About the Book

Reissued and updated ten years after its original publication, a dazzlingly original book--far ahead of its time--explains how the world's best-known climate event affect ed the rise and fall of civilizations

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Brian Fagan is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he has written many internationally acclaimed popular books about archaeology, including The Little Ice Age, The Great Warming, and The Long Summer. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.