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The burning earth

The burning earth
a material history of the last 500 years

  • ISBN: 9780241461983
  • Editorial: Allen Lane Publishers
  • Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
  • Encuadernación: Cartoné
  • Medidas: 24 cm
  • Nº Pág.: 432
  • Idiomas: Inglés

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Resumen

In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and
eco-cide, of the expansion of human freedom and its costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of Portuguese silver mining in Peru, British gold mining in South Africa, and oil extraction in Central Asia. He explores the railways and highways that brought humans to new terrains of battle against each other and against nature. Amrith's account of the ways in which the First and Second World Wars involved the massive mobilization not only of men, but of other natural resources from around the globe, provides an essential new way of understanding war as an irreversible reshaping of the planet. He also reveals the reality of migration as consequence of environmental harm.

The imperial, globe-spanning pursuit of profit, joined with new forms of energy and new possibilities of freedom from hunger and discomfort, freedom to move and explore, has brought change to every inch of the Earth. Amrith relates, on the largest canvas, a mind-altering epic - vibrant with stories, characters, and vivid images - in which humanity might find the collective wisdom to save itself.

Prologue: dreams of escape
Introduction: nature and freedom
Part I. Seeds of change (1200-1800)
Horizons of desire
Winds of death
Land and freedom
Suburbs of hell
Part II. Breaking the chains (1800-1945)
Revolutions in life and death
Impossible cities
Nitrogen nightmares
War on earth
Part III. The human exception (1945-2025)
Freedom's promise
The human condition
Burning forests
Tipping points
Four hundred parts per million..
Epilogue: roads to repair

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