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THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMESA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times'Vast, learned and timely work' Sunday Times------From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time.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 The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, 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, The Earth Transformed 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' Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland'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 HollandA 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: BBC NEWS _ SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE _ FINANCIAL TIMES _ NEW EUROPEAN _ GUARDIAN _ NEW STATESMAN _ THE TIMES _ THE WEEK _ WATERSTONES _ BLACKWELL'S
Intro -- By The Same Author -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1 The World from the Dawn of Time (c.4.5bn-c.7m BC) -- 2 On the Origins of Our Species (c.7m-c.12,000 BC) -- 3 Human Interactions with Ecologies (c.12,000-c.3500 BC) -- 4 The First Cities and Trade Networks (c.3500-c.2500 BC) -- 5 On the Risks of Living Beyond One's Means (c.2500-c.2200 BC) -- 6 The First Age of Connectivity (c.2200-c.800 BC) -- 7 Regarding Nature and the Divine (c.1700-c.300 BC) -- 8 The Steppe Frontier and Formation of Empires (c.1700-c.300 BC) -- 9 The Roman Warm Period (c.300 BC-AD c.500) -- 10 The Crisis of Late Antiquity (AD c. 500-c.600) -- 11 The Golden Age of Empire (c.600-c.900) -- 12 The Medieval Warm Period (c.900-c.1250) -- 13 Disease and the Formation of a New World (c.1250-c.1450) -- 14 On the Expansion of Ecological Horizons (c.1400-c.1500) -- 15 The Fusion of the Old and the New Worlds (c.1500-c.1700) -- 16 On the Exploitation of Nature and People (c.1650-c.1750) -- 17 The Little Ice Age (c.1550-c.1800) -- 18 Concerning Great and Little Divergences (c.1600-c.1800) -- 19 Industry, Extraction and the Natural World (c.1800-c.1870) -- 20 The Age of Turbulence (c.1870-c.1920) -- 21 Fashioning New Utopias (c.1920-c.1950) -- 22 Reshaping the Global Environment (the Mid-Twentieth Century) -- 23 The Sharpening of Anxieties (c.1960-c.1990) -- 24 On the Edge of Ecological Limits (c.1990-today) -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Image Credits -- Chart Credits -- Index -- A Note on the Author -- Plates -- eCopyright.
"Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of the Moche civilization in South America that came about because of the cyclical pressures of El Niño to volcanic eruptions in Iceland that affected Egypt and helped bring the Ottoman empire to its knees, climate change and its influences have always been with us"--
"Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of the Moche civilization in South America that came about because of the cyclical pressures of El Niño to volcanic eruptions in Iceland that affected Egypt and helped bring the Ottoman empire to its knees, climate change and its influences have always been with us"--
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