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Floods, famines, and emperors: El Niño and the fate of civilizations

Brian M Fagan
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Author's Note (page ix)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xxi)
  • PART ONE THE CHRISTMAS CHILD
    • 1. The Great Visitation (page 3)
    • 2. Guano Happens (page 27)
    • 3. ENSO (page 45)
    • 4. The North Atlantic Oscillation (page 65)
  • PART TWO ANCIENT EL NIÑOS
    • 5. A Time of Warming (page 89)
    • 6. Pharaohs in Crisis (page 119)
    • 7. The Moche Lords (page 143)
    • 8. The Classic Maya Collapse (page 169)
    • 9. The Ancient Ones (page 195)
  • PART THREE CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE STREAM OF TIME
    • 10. The Catastrophe of 1877-1878 (page 221)
    • 11. "Drought Follows the Plow" (page 245)
    • 12. El Niños That Shook the World (page 269)
    • 13. The Fate of Civilizations (page 291)
  • Notes and Sources (page 313)
  • Index (page 331)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AMER 56.3 (Jan. 2000): 109-110 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1007591
JWH 13.1 (Spring 2002): 186-189 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20078948
JAR 55.4 (Winter 1999): 605-606 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3631626
LAA 10.3 (Sep. 1999): 314-315 http://www.jstor.org/stable/972033
ETH 47. 3/4 (Summer - Autumn 2000): 840-842 http://www.jstor.org/stable/483008
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Published: c2009
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN(s)
  • 9780465011216 (paper)
  • 9780786727681 (ebook)
  • 9780465011209 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Comparative/World
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