The long summer
Subtitle: how climate changed civilization
By: Brian Fagan.
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects; Civilization -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: The threshold of vulnerability; title: The late Ice Age orchestra, 18,000 to 13,500 B.C.; title: The virgin continent, 15,000 to 11,000 B.C.; title: Europe during the Great Warming, 15,000 to 11,000 B.C.; title: The thousand-year drought, 11,000 to 10,000 B.C.; title: The cataclysm, 10,000 to 4000 B.C.; title: Droughts and cities, 6200 to 1900 B.C.; title: Gifts of the desert, 6000 to 3100 B.C.; title: The dance of air and ocean, 2200 to 1200 B.C.; title: Celts and Romans, 1200 B.C. to A.D. 900; title: The great droughts, A.D. 1 to 1200; title: Magnificent ruins, A.D. 1 to 1200; title: Epilogue, A.D. 1200 to modern times.