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020			_a9781526622570
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100			_aFrankopan, Peter _9412644
245			_aThe earth transformed: an untold history _cFrankopan, Peter
260			_aNew Delhi _bBloomsbury _c2023
300			_axxv, 696p. _bIncludes notes, images, chart credits and index
520			_aIn The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, one of the world's leading historians, shows that the natural environment is a crucial, if not the defining, factor in global history – and not just of humankind. Volcanic eruptions, solar activities, atmospheric, oceanic and other shifts, as well as anthropogenic behaviour, are fundamental parts of the past and the present. In this magnificent and groundbreaking book, we learn about the origins of our species: about the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; about how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state; about how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; about how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. All provide lessons of profound importance as we face a precarious future of rapid global warming.
650			_aHuman ecology -- History _9751732
650			_aHuman beings -- Effect of climate on -- History _9751733
650			_aClimatic changes -- History _9751734
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