Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of
the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst
winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed,
ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan shows that engagement
with the natural world and with climatic change and their effects
on us are not new: exploring, for instance, the development of
religion and language and their relationships with the environment;
tracing how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased
shipment of enslaved peoples; scrutinising how the desire to
centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the
bureaucratic state; and seeing how efforts to understand and
manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. Understanding
how past shifts in natural patterns have shaped history, and how
our own species has shaped terrestrial, marine and atmospheric
conditions is not just important but essential at a time of growing
awareness of the severity of the climate crisis. Taking us from the
Big Bang to the present day, The Earth Transformed forces us to
reckon with humankind's continuing efforts to make sense of the
natural world.
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