The Earth transformed : an untold history
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525659167
- ISBN: 052565917X
- ISBN: 9780525659174
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Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations
remote - Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The world from the dawn of time (c.4.5 bn-c.7m BC) -- On the origins of our species (c.7m-c.12,000 BC) -- Human interactions with ecologies (c.12,000-c.3500 BC)-- The first cities and trade networks (c.3500-c.2500 BC) -- On the risks of living beyond one's means (c.2500-c.2200 BC) -- The first age of connectivity (c.2200-c.800 BC) -- Regarding nature and the divine (c.1700-c.300 BC) -- The steppe frontier and formation of empires (c.1700-c.300 BC) -- The roman warm period (c.300 BC-AD c.500) -- The crisis of late antiquity (AD c.500-c.600) -- The golden age of empire (c.600-c.900) -- The medieval warm period (c.900-c.1250) -- Disease and the formation of a new world (c.1250-c.1450) -- On the expansion of ecological horizons (c.1400-c.1500) -- The fusion of the old and the new worlds (c.1500-c.1700) -- On the exploitation of nature and people (c.1650-c.1750) -- The little ice age (c.1550-c.1800) -- Concerning great and little divergences (c.1600-c.1800) -- Industry, extraction and the natural world (c.1800-c.1870) -- The age of turbulence (c.1870-c.1920) -- Fashioning new utopias (c.1920-c.1950) -- Reshaping the global environment (the mid-twentieth century) -- The sharpening of anxieties (c.1960-c.1990) -- On the edge of ecological limits (c.1990-today) -- Conclusion. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 1, 2023). |
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Genre: | History. Electronic books. |