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Cargando... The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (edición 2024)por Peter Frankopan (Autor)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Just a note that for me, at age 74, this book provides a context for everything I've experienced & read (& hope to experience & read in the time left to me). I read it on a Kindle device, so the complaints in some of the reviews regarding the separation of the (staggering) bibliographic sources did not apply. I'm sure I comprehended only a small percentage of what I read intellectually, but even that was hair-raising. and at a different level, the amount of suffering & destruction implied was, to be honest, incomprehensible. ( ) In this book historian Frankopan looks at how climate has impacted on world events. In his view the two are inextricably linked and human impact is also a driver for climatic events. This is a masterly and apposite piece of world, the polymathic knowledge and research alone is staggering. It's not a quick read but it is an extremely vital one if we are to understand the path that we are now following. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the developmentâ??and demiseâ??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 No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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