The Great Warming

布莱恩·费根，剑桥大学考古学和人类学博士，世界知名考古学家，曾任加州大学圣巴巴拉分校人类学系教授。他于1997年被美国考古学会授予“公共教育贡献奖”。已出版专著20余本，其中《世界史前史》《小冰河时代》《圣婴与文明兴衰：洪水、饥馑与帝王》《法老王朝》《漫长的夏天：气候如何改变人类文明》等已被译成中文出版，深受读者喜爱。

出版者:Bloomsbury Press

作者:Brian Fagan

页数:282

出版时间:2008-03-04

价格:USD 26.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781596913929

图书标签:历史自然文化

How the earth’s previous global warming phase, from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara—a wide-ranging history with sobering lessons for our own time.

From the tenth to the fifteenth centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide—a preview of today’s global warming. In some areas, including Western Europe, longer summers brought bountiful harvests and population growth that led to cultural flowering. In the Arctic, Inuit and Norse sailors made cultural connections across thousands of miles as they traded precious iron goods. Polynesian sailors, riding new wind patterns, were able to settle the remotest islands on earth. But in many parts of the world, the warm centuries brought drought and famine. Elaborate societies in western and central America collapsed, and the vast building complexes of Chaco Canyon and the Mayan Yucatan were left empty.

As he did in his bestselling The Little Ice Age, anthropologist and historian Brian Fagan reveals how subtle changes in the environment had far-reaching effects on human life, in a narrative that sweeps from the Arctic ice cap to the Sahara to the Indian Ocean. The history of the Great Warming of a half millennium ago suggests that we may yet be underestimating the power of climate change to disrupt our lives today—and our vulnerability to drought, writes Fagan, is the “silent elephant in the room.”

读后感

【我们的世界，正在变暖。】 　　 　　有些人并不相信，认为这是个大谎言，比如美国现任总统唐纳德·特朗普。他将“全球变暖”视作一种限制美国工业发展的阴谋，并在上任之初，退出了旨在应对全球温室气体排放的《巴黎协定》。此举立即遭到全球绝大部分环境科学家的反对。 ...  

【我们的世界，正在变暖。】 　　 　　有些人并不相信，认为这是个大谎言，比如美国现任总统唐纳德·特朗普。他将“全球变暖”视作一种限制美国工业发展的阴谋，并在上任之初，退出了旨在应对全球温室气体排放的《巴黎协定》。此举立即遭到全球绝大部分环境科学家的反对。 ...  

“乐于承担向公众传播人类学和历史学知识的社会责任”，这是一句足以感动每个人类学者的话。 我给《人类学的哲学之根》写过的一篇书评中，引的第一句话是作者亚当斯说的：该书的思考来自作者教授人类学概论20年的心得。只这一句话，就足以使那本书成为出色的人类学作品。 同样...

用户评价

incredibly dry writing. the topic itself is fascinating - i just couldn't stand the way he talks.

incredibly dry writing. the topic itself is fascinating - i just couldn't stand the way he talks.

Abandoned, too dry to read. Fake description of the past a bummer. Scanned a few pages about the drought in Tang Dynasty, didn’t know the Yellow River was called the Sorrow River

Abandoned, too dry to read. Fake description of the past a bummer. Scanned a few pages about the drought in Tang Dynasty, didn’t know the Yellow River was called the Sorrow River

incredibly dry writing. the topic itself is fascinating - i just couldn't stand the way he talks.