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Fagan (anthropology, emeritus, U. of California, Santa Barbara) untangles the intricate relationship of climate and human society and shows how the entire history of civilization has been largely a process of responding to climate stresses. His popularly accessible narrative outlines the centuries-long pattern of human adaptation to the demands and challenges of an ever-changing climate. In fact, he notes, population growth, urbanization, and the global spread of the Industrial Revolution make us perhaps more vulnerable than ever.
Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the long summer of the human species. In The Long Summer, Brian Fagan brings us the first detailed record of climate change during these 15,000 years of warming, and shows how this climate change gave rise to civilization. A thousand-year chill led people in the Near East to take up the cultivation of plant foods; a catastrophic flood drove settlers to inhabit Europe; the drying of the Sahara forced its inhabitants to live along the banks of the Nile; and increased rainfall in East Africa provoked the bubonic plague. The Long Summer illuminates for the first time the centuries-long pattern of human adaptation to the demands and challenges of an ever-changing climate-challenges that are still with us today.
Udgivet 02-05-2005
Granta Books
320 sider
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