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The Long Summer : How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian Murray Fagan is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Long Summer : How Climate Changed Civilization about?
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 <i>The Long Summer</i>, 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 p
Who reads The Long Summer : How Climate Changed Civilization?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Brian Murray Fagan
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781862076440
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Business, Science
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (439 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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