| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.4

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.4 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization. By Brian Fagan. New York: Basic Books, 2004. xvii+284 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $26.00.

Chronologically longer than civilization, Fagan's account begins with the onset of the warming trend that ended the last great Ice Age c. 15,000 BC and continued to AD 1200. Geographically narrower than civilization, his focus is on Europe, north Africa, southwest Asia, and the Americas, i.e. Fagan's areas of expertise, and of mainstream American archaeology. The principal sources are sediment cores taken by scientific teams from sea floors, Arctic or mountain ice-caps, and especially a core from the Russian Antarctic Vostok station, some 420,000 years long. The method is chronological coincidence. A chronological table opens each of the book's three parts, then the narrative points to climatic and historical events and attempts to explain linkages between them.

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