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The Earth Transformed

An Untold History

Engels | 02-03-2023 | 704 pagina's

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Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan shows that engagement with the natural world and with climatic change and their effects on us are not new: exploring, for instance, the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; tracing how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; scrutinising how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state; and seeing how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. Understanding how past shifts in natural patterns have shaped history, and how our own species has shaped terrestrial, marine and atmospheric conditions is not just important but essential at a time of growing awareness of the severity of the climate crisis. Taking us from the Big Bang to the present day, The Earth Transformed forces us to reckon with humankind's continuing efforts to make sense of the natural world.



Details

    ISBN :9781526622570
    Auteur: 
    Uitgever :Veltman Distributie Import Books
    Publicatiedatum :  02-03-2023
    Uitvoering :Paperback / softback
    Taal :Engels
    Hoogte :235 mm
    Breedte :153 mm
    Dikte :55 mm
    Gewicht :1120 gr
    Status :Op voorraad bij leverancier
    Aantal pagina's :704