The Earth Transformed 1st Edition by Peter Frankopan ISBN 978-0525659167 0525659161

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ISBN 10:  0525659161

ISBN 13: 978-0525659167

Author: Peter Frankopan

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across time

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. 

Frankopan explains how the Vikings emerged thanks to catastrophic crop failure, why the roots of regime change in eleventh-century Baghdad lay in the collapse of cotton prices resulting from unusual climate patterns, and why the western expansion of the frontiers in North America was directly affected by solar flare activity in the eighteenth century. Again and again, Frankopan shows that when past empires have failed to act sustainably, they have been met with catastrophe. Blending brilliant historical writing and cutting-edge scientific research, The Earth Transformed will radically reframe the way we look at the world and our future.

Table of contents: 

1. The World from the Dawn of Time
2. On the origins of our Species
3. The First Cities and Trade Networks
4. On the Risks of living Beyond One’s Means
5. The First Age of Connectivity
6. Regarding Nature and the Divine
7. The Steppe Frontier and Formation of Empires
8. The Roman Warm Period
9. The Crisis of Late Antiquity
10. The Golden Age of Empire
11. The Medieval warm Period
12. Disease and the Formation of a New World
13. One the Expansion of Ecological Horizons
14. The Fusion of the Old and the New Worlds
15. On the Exploitation of Nature and People
16. The Little Ice Age
17. Concerning Great and Little Divergences
18. Industry, Extraction and the Natural World
19. The Age of Turbulence
20. Fashioning New Utopias
21. Reshaping the Global Environment
22. The Sharpening of Anxieties
23. On the Edge of Ecological Limits

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