Floods, Famines, and Emperors El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations [Paperback]

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 Emperorsremains the definitive account of how the world's best-known climate event had an indelible impact on history.

Brian Faganis Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he has written many internationally acclaimed books of popular archaeology, includingThe Great Warming,The Rape of the Nile,The Little Ice Age, andThe Long Summer. He lives in Santa Barbara.

www.brianfagan.com