The earth transformed : (Record no. 96060)
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| fixed length control field | 230808b2023 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781526622563 |
| 060 ## - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QH 75 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal author | Frankopan, Peter |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The earth transformed : |
| Subtitle | an untold history |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION INFORMATION | |
| Place of publication | Great Britan : |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury, |
| Date | 2023 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Physical description | x, 712p |
| 520 ## - ABSTRACT | |
| Abstract | Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan shows that engagement with the natural world and with climatic change and their effects on us are not new: exploring, for instance, the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; tracing how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; scrutinising how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state; and seeing how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. Understanding how past shifts in natural patterns have shaped history, and how our own species has shaped terrestrial, marine and atmospheric conditions is not just important but essential at a time of growing awareness of the severity of the climate crisis. Taking us from the Big Bang to the present day, The Earth Transformed forces us to reckon with humankind's continuing efforts to make sense of the natural world. |
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| Subject term | Climate Change |
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| Subject term | Climate History |
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| Subject term | Environment |
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| Subject term | Natural Disasters |
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| National Library of Medicine | Stenhouse Library | Stenhouse Library | Shelves | 31/07/2023 | Tomlinsons | 30.00 | QH 75 | ST00346 | 12/09/2023 | 30.00 | 08/08/2023 | Book |