The Burning Earth An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

Ever since innovations in agriculture vastly expanded production of the staples of food energy, our remarkable achievements in reshaping nature have brought about an overwhelming expansion in the life chances of billions of people. Yet every technological innovation has also empowered humans to exploit each other and the planet with devastating brutality, twinning the stories of environment and of Empire, genocide and eco-cide, as with Spanish silver mining in Peru and British gold mining in South Africa.

After the age of empire, new nations raced to make up lost ground, expanding human freedom at devastating ecological cost. Amrith''s environmental lens provides an essential new way of understanding war: as a massive reshaping of the earth through the global mobilization of natural resources, those resources including humans themselves. He also makes clear that migration is often a consequence of environmental harm.

Reinterpreting a history previously seen from a Euro-and-anthropocentric viewpoint, Amrith relates in brilliant prose, and on the largest canvas, a magisterial, mind-altering epic - vibrant with stories, characters, vivid images and rich archival resources.<>

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Sunil Amrith, Amrith Sunil
• Edition: Allen Lane
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre Relié
• Date de parution: 05.09.2024
• Catégorie: Littérature spécialisée
• EAN: 9780241461983
• ISBN: 978-0-241-46198-3
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Dimensions (emballage): 16 x 23,9 x 3,8 cm
• Catégories: World, NATURE / Natural Resources, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / World, SCIENCE / Natural History, c 1500 onwards to present day, Pollution & threats to the environment, Environmental Management, General and world history, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Impact of science and technology on society, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Industrialisation & Industrial History