| International Standard Book Number |
1324007184 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781324007180 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Amrith, Sunil S., 1979- author.
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| Title Statement |
The burning Earth : a history / Sunil Amrith
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
?2024
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : W W Norton & Company, [2024]
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| Physical Description |
418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-394) and index
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| Summary, Etc. |
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.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Economic history.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Natural resources.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Human ecology History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Imperialism Environmental aspects History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Ecocide History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mineral industries Environmental aspects History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Railroads Environmental aspects History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Roads Environmental aspects History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
War Environmental aspects.
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| Location |
Richardson Public Library In Cataloging 909 AMR AVAIL Richardson Public Library
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