The burning earth : an environmental history of the last 500 years
Amrith, Sunil, 1979-2025
Book
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.
Main title:
Author:
Amrith, Sunil, 1979-, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2025.
Collation:
432 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2024.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141993867 (pbk)
Dewey class:
304.209304.209 AMR
Language:
English
BRN:
4156326