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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-101324007184

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Book TitleBurning Earth : a History

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicEconomic History, Human Geography, Modern / General, World

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Business & Economics, History

AuthorSunil Amrith

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight25.2 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.4 in

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ReviewsIn this expansive book, a historian places the earth's ecological plight in the context of human exploitation [and] recognizes the inseparability of environmental distress and political, economic, and social factors., [A] magisterial historical review... Amrith writes from an environmental history perspective, and with an impassioned sense of social justice, about a wide range of subjects, including agriculture, assassination, colonialization, disease, freedom, hunger, politics, pollution, slavery, urbanization, and war., Devastating and essential... In Amrith's telling, human and environmental consequences are inseparable., Memorable and mesmerizing. Sunil Amrith has gifted us a page-turner of a book, written with passionate lucidity. Historically deep and geographically generous, The Burning Earth dramatizes human freedom's profound dependence on the health and integrity of our environments. Amrith's capacious insights and his worldly perspective make this a standout title for anyone interested in the long arc of environmental justice, "Sunil Amrith's chronicle is as compassionate as it is riveting. A Yale professor and the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, the author moves seamlessly from how global conquest and war reshaped Earth from 1218 onward, to fascinating cultural analysis... to a resolute call for integrating our own vulnerable "creatureliness" into a road toward repair.", As beautiful as it is indispensable, as breathtaking as it is devastating. It answers questions most of us have been too daft even to ask. The Burning Earth will set you on fire., This bleak, stunningly written book shows that the other side of the coin called progress is destruction. Amrith writes like the finest novelist, and his grasp of a mind-boggling expanse of material is deeply impressive., Amrith recounts countless episodes of human greed, including the imperialism of Spain, Russia, China, Britain and others; the growth of South Africa's gold mines, where the suffering of African miners helped to forge London as a financial centre; and the murders of modern-day environmentalists. We have reached planetary crisis... Only by understanding how we have treated the planet in the past can we understand our future., The Burning Earth is a welcome complement to important historical critiques of social injustice and inequality by authors like Howard Zinn and Eduardo Galeano., Written with passion and insight, this is a highly readable grand narrative illustrated by vignettes from across the globe., The Burning Earth is a global history of the human destruction of the Earth in the pursuit of profit, as well as a sweeping account of how major technological advances have both improved and decimated human life. It's a richly detailed story that tries to explain how we got to where we are today, so imperiled by the impacts of climate change, while also offering the possibility of new ways of flourishing on the planet., Memorable and mesmerizing. Sunil Amrith has gifted us a page-turner of a book, written with passionate lucidity. Historically deep and geographically generous, The Burning Earth dramatizes human freedom's profound dependence on the health and integrity of our environments. Amrith's capacious insights and his worldly perspective make this a standout title for anyone interested in the long arc of environmental justice.", Ranging from the Mongol expansion to contemporary climate change, Amrith has given us the most readable global environmental history yet. With an eye for the telling detail combined with a sense of the big picture, this book brings environmental perspectives together with such major world historical themes as empire, freedom and energy. A towering achievement and a joy to read., A devastating panorama of human folly, a poetic meditation on how the search for freedom from nature undermined the very conditions for life on Earth. Beautifully written, Sunil Amrith's global and long-term view is crucial to understanding the environmental predicaments we are in, and, perhaps, to restore a distraught world. A must-read for anyone concerned with the state of the planet., Both dizzying and deracinating, but also, even in its grimness, quite thrilling... Amrith's panopticon-like vision is one we need to adopt as we must assume responsibility for the health of the planet., [An] expansive book... Amrith recognizes the inseparability of environmental distress and political, economic, and social factors., [An] insightful survey of the long human struggle to escape environmental limitations...Whether the casting off of planetary bonds is literal or figurative, the prospect is delicious, and as Amrith so convincingly shows, it has animated the powerful for more than a thousand years. Yet the costs of the attempt are steep, and they are ever harder to escape., [The Burning Earth] is an environmentally focused chronicle of the eras of colonization and industrialization that probes the dual natures of war and resource extraction, ecological degradation and human mass migration, and technological improvement and planetary devastation., Beautifully written... Sunil Amrith's The Burning Earth takes us on a gloomy and bleak tour of how, in the name of progress, Western empires made a mess of everything., A far-reaching survey of the central role played by human needs and desires in the destruction of Earth., Memorable and mesmerizing. Amrith has gifted us a page-turner of a book written with passionate lucidity. Historically deep and geographically generous, The Burning Earth dramatizes human freedom's profound dependence on the health and integrity of our environments. Amrith's capacious insights and his worldly perspective make this a standout title for anyone interested in the long arc of environmental justice., Sunil Amrith's The Burning Earth is a marvelously erudite and wide-ranging account of the steadily accelerating ecological transformation of the planet since the 12th century. An indispensable contribution to both environmental and global history., A devastating panorama of human folly, a poetic meditation on how the search for freedom from nature undermined the very conditions for life on earth. Beautifully written, Sunil Amrith's global and long-term view is crucial to understanding the environmental predicaments we are in, and, perhaps, to restore a distraught world. A must read for anyone concerned with the state of the planet., From Potosi to Johannesburg to Baku, the cycle of exploitation and extraction repeat throughout history and throughout this book... Indeed the magnitude of death and suffering of human and non-human animals is hard to comprehend. And when you take the long view, with Amrith as guide, it becomes clear that this pattern that keep repeating must be stopped... As a historian, Sunil Amrith provides readers with a narrative that spans continents and centuries, calling out exploiters with compassion for the exploited. And if all history is environmental history, we all are authors of this next critical chapter., [The] pattern of conquest and carnage--pitting rich against poor, colonialist against indigenous, control of nature against the flourishing of the wild--has, tragically, been repeated countless times throughout history and across the globe. Amrith narrates this sorry (and sometimes inspiring) saga with flair, in his epic exploration of human innovation and destruction., A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years., A hard-hitting, exceptionally erudite, and beautifully written account of the human transformation of the planet over the larger part of the last millennium... The Burning Earth is eminently readable, combining high-level analysis with a dazzling array of smaller, more intimate stories., A marvelously erudite and wide-ranging account of the steadily accelerating ecological transformation of the planet since the twelfth century. An indispensable contribution to both environmental and global history., A wrenching, clear-eyed reckoning with humanity's extractive relationship to the natural world that plants seeds of insight on how we can shift to an ethos of regeneration and repair. Every page challenges us to conceive the future we want for the planet...and ourselves., Sunil Amrith's The Burning Earth is a marvelously erudite and wide-ranging account of the steadily accelerating ecological transformation of the planet since the twelfth century. An indispensable contribution to both environmental and global history., Sunil Amrith's The Burning Earth, which is nothing short of a history of the world, is as beautiful as it is indispensable, as breathtaking as it is devastating. It answers questions most of us have been too daft even to ask. It will set you on fire., The Burning Earth, which is nothing short of a history of the world, is as beautiful as it is indispensable, as breathtaking as it is devastating. It answers questions most of us have been too daft even to ask. It will set you on fire.

SynopsisOne of The New Yorker's "Essential Reads" of 2024 One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2024 A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years., 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 Portuguese 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. The imperial, globe-spanning pursuit of profit, joined with new forms of energy and new possibilities of freedom from hunger and discomfort, freedom to move and explore, has brought change to every inch of the Earth. Amrith relates in gorgeous prose, and on the largest canvas, a mind-altering epic--vibrant with stories, characters, and vivid images--in which humanity might find the collective wisdom to save itself., Finalist for the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award One of The New Yorker's "Essential Reads" of 2024 * One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2024 A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years.

LC Classification NumberGF13.A47 2024