The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
by Frankopan, P
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- ISBN 13
- 9781526622563
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Bloomsbury, 2023. xxv, 695, 16 plates with col + b/w photos, b/w illus, b/w maps. . HB. NEW. . When we think about history, we rarely pay much attention to the most destructive floods, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts or the ways that ecosystems have changed over time.In this book, the author, one of the world's leading historians, shows that the natural environment is a crucial, if not the defining, factor in global history - and not just of humankind. Volcanic eruptions, solar activities, atmospheric, oceanic and other shifts, as well as anthropogenic behaviour, are fundamental parts of the past and the present. In this magnificent and groundbreaking book, we learn about the origins of our species: about the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; about how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state; about how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; about how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. All provide lessons of profound importance as we face a precarious future of rapid global warming.Taking us from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond, this book forces us to reckon with humankind's continuing efforts to make sense of the natural world.'This is epic, gripping, original history that leaps off the page. I wanted to buy everyone I know a copy' Sathnam Sanghera, author of <i>Empireland</i> 'All Historians aiming to tell a narrative face the problem of when exactly to start it. Only Peter Frankopan would go back 2.5 billion years to the Great Oxidation Event' Tom HollandVast, learned and timely work' <i>The Sunday Times</i>. [9781526622563]
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- Title
- The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
- Author
- Frankopan, P
- Book Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 1526622564
- ISBN 13
- 9781526622563
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Date Published
- 2023
- Keywords
- Climate change; Global Warming
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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