Ebook: Floods, famines, and emperors: el Niño and the fate of civilizations

Author's note -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Christmas Child -- 1: Great visitation -- 2: Guano happens -- 3: ENSO -- 4: North Atlantic oscillation -- Part 2: Ancient El Ninos -- 5: Time of warming -- 6: Pharaohs in crisis -- 7: Moche lords -- 8: Classic Maya collapse -- 9: Ancient ones -- Part 3: Climate Change And The Stream Of Time -- 10: Catastrophe of 1877-1878 -- 11: Drought follows the plow -- 12: El Ninos that shook the world -- 13: Fate of civilizations -- Notes and sources -- Index.;From the Publisher: 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 Emperors remains the definitive account of how the world's best-known climate event had an indelible impact on history.