The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
10 best books like The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 (Brian M. Fagan): Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, On Human Nature, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, Martin's Hundred, Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History), Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage, Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000, The Chomsky Reader
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0739467352 |
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of...
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
| Author | Erik Larson |
| ISBN | 0739303406 |
Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized...
| Author | Edward O. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0674016386 |
No one who cares about the human future can afford to ignore E.O. Wilson's book. On Human Nature begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny?
With...
| Author | William Cronon |
| ISBN | 0809016346 |
The book that launched environmental history now updated.
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of...
| Author | Ivor Noël Hume |
| ISBN | 0813913233 |
Hume's book is non-fiction and is about the uncovering of an early 1600's settlement near Jamestown. The book is well written and can be enjoyed by both anthro/archeology buffs as well as mystery fans. The book details the perserverance and patience a researcher needs to discover the smallest particles...
| Author | John Robert McNeill |
| ISBN | 0521452864 |
This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable...
| Author | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0521546184 |
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby,...
| Author | William L. Rathje |
| ISBN | 0816521433 |
It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today’s garbage that William Rathje and Cullen Murphy inform us of our present. Rubbish! is their witty and erudite investigation into...
| Author | Barry W. Cunliffe |
| ISBN | 0300119232 |
In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European history, from prehistory through the ancient world to the medieval Viking period. Cunliffe views Europe not in terms of states and shifting political land boundaries but as a...
| Author | Noam Chomsky |
| ISBN | 1852421177 |
At the centre of pratically every major debate over America?s role in the world, one finds Noam Chomsky?s ideas - sometimes attacked, sometimes studiously ignored, but always a powerful presence. Drawing from his published and unpublished work, The Chomsky Reader reveals the awesome range of this...
