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The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

Amrith, Sunil

Paperback

EconomicsGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1324111275
ISBN13: 9781324111276
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Oct 21 2025
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.26
Language: English

In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of Spanish silver mining in Peru, British gold mining in South Africa, and oil extraction in Central Asia. He explores the railroads and highways that brought humans to new terrains of battle against each other and against stubborn 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. So too does this book reveal the reality of migration as consequence of environmental harm.

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