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The burning Earth : an environmental history of the last 500 years
Amrith, Sunil, 1979-2024
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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 ecocide, 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.
Main title:
The burning Earth : an environmental history of the last 500 years / by Sunil Amrith.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2024.©2024.
Collation:
418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-394) and index.
ISBN:
9780241461983 (hardback)
Dewey class:
333.709
Language:
English
Subject:
Human ecology -- HistoryHuman beings -- Effect of environment on -- HistoryNature -- Effect of human beings on -- HistoryEcocide -- HistoryImperialism -- Environmental aspects -- HistoryMineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- HistoryRailroads -- Environmental aspects -- HistoryRoads -- Environmental aspects -- HistoryWar -- Environmental aspects
BRN:
516529
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Nonfiction | 333.709 BUR | Onloan - Due: 06 Mar 2025 |