The great warming : climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations / Brian Fagan.

New York : Bloomsbury, 2008.

xvii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

1st U.S. ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-262) and index.

A time of warming -- "The mantle of the poor" -- The flail of God -- The golden trade of the Moors -- Inuit and Qadlunaat -- The megadrought epoch -- Acorns and pueblos -- Lords of the water mountains -- The lords of Chimor -- Bucking the trades -- The flying fish ocean -- China's sorrow -- The silent elephant.