布萊恩·費根,劍橋大學考古學和人類學博士,世界知名考古學傢,曾任加州大學聖巴巴拉分校人類學係教授。他於1997年被美國考古學會授予“公共教育貢獻奬”。已齣版專著20餘本,其中《世界史前史》《小冰河時代》《聖嬰與文明興衰:洪水、飢饉與帝王》《法老王朝》《漫長的夏天:氣候如何改變人類文明》等已被譯成中文齣版,深受讀者喜愛。
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.”
雖然天氣對於普通人的的直接影響似乎僅限於“帶不帶傘”,但仔細想起來,其實即使科技水平如此發達的今天,很多行業也隻能看天吃飯。農業自不必說,交通、旅遊、建築、開采等諸多行業均或多或少受到天氣影響,更不用說大宗農産品期貨對金融市場帶來的影響。 今天我們讀曆史,關...
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评分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
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评分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
评分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
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