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The Little Ice Age PDF

204 Pages·2017·5.52 MB·English
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Also by Brian Fagan Floods, Famines and Emperors: El Nino and the Collapse of Civilizations Into the Unknown From Black Land to Fifth Sun Eyewitness to Discovery (editor) Oxford Companion to Archaeology (editor) Time Detectives Kingdoms of Jade, Kingdoms of Gold Ancient North America Journey from Eden The Great Journey The Adventure of Archaeology The Aztecs Clash of Cultures Return to Babylon Quest for the Past Elusive Treasure The Rape of the Nile Southern Africa How CLIMATE MADE HISTORY 1300-1850 BRIAN FAGAN Professor Glyn Daniel and Ruth Daniel, archaeologists Professor Hubert Lamb, climatologist Preface Acknowledgments Author's Note 1 The Medieval Warm Period 2 The Great Famine 3 The Climatic Seesaw 4 Storms, Cod and Doggers 5 A Vast Peasantry 6 The Specter of Hunger 7 The War Against the Glaciers 8 "More Like Winter Than Summer" 9 Dearth and Revolution 10 The Year Without a Summer 11 An Ghorta Mor 12 A Warmer Greenhouse

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world's first preindustrial civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Americas. The price of and use of coal, oil, and other fossil fuels have raised greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere to record . The Little Ice Age is a narrative history of climatic shifts during the past ten centuries an
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