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Title: Excellent overview of climate's effects on human culture
Review: This slim volume by Brian Fagan provides an excellent overview of the changes in climate effecting human culture over hundreds and thousands of years. The climate changes are shown with their global and regional effects. Professor Fagan then relates the geological changes to gross changes in human culture such as the switch from a hunter-gatherer culture to a settled development of agriculture. He proposes that drought is one of the causes of the growth of cities from villages.This book could be of benefit in World History, American History, and European History classes in addition to basic enviromental science classes.
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