000			01663nam a22002057a 4500
999			_c38230 _d38230
020			_a9781526622570
041			_aeng.
082			_a363.73874 _bFRA-E
100	1		_aFrankopan, Peter _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Earth Transformed : _bAn Untold History / _cPeter Frankopan.
260			_aLondon : _bBloomsbury Publishing, _c2023.
300			_a736p.
504			_aInclude index.
520			_aIn 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.
546			_aEnglish.
650			_aClimate change.
650			_aNatural disasters.
650			_a History _xGeneral History.
942			_2ddc _cBK