{"product_id":"the-earth-transformed-an-untold-history","title":"The Earth Transformed","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN INSTANT #2\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eVast, learned and timely work'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the international bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silk Roads\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ecomes a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development-and demise-of civilisations across time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen we think about history, we rarely pay much attention to the most destructive floods, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts or the ways that ecosystems have changed over time.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Earth Transformed,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter 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. Taking us from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Earth Transformed\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eforces us to reckon with humankind's continuing efforts to make sense of the natural world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is epic, gripping, original history that leaps off the page. I wanted to buy everyone I know a copy' Sathnam Sanghera, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmpireland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'All Historians aiming to tell a narrative face the problem of when exactly to start it. Only Peter Frankopan would go back 2.5 billion years to the Great Oxidation Event' Tom Holland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistory and Archaeology, Earth Sciences - Geography - Environment - Planning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProfessor Peter Frankopan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e736 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH: 234mm W: 153mm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42515653886102,"sku":"9781526622570","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/products\/jacket---2023-03-14T165316-621.jpg?v=1678766110","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/the-earth-transformed-an-untold-history","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}