Cataclysms
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-60912-6 (ISBN)
In order to begin reversing our environmental disaster, we must have a better understanding of our own past and the incalculable environmental costs incurred at every stage of human innovation. Cataclysms offers that understanding and the hope that we can now begin to reform our relationship to the Earth.
Laurent Testot is a French journalist and lecturer who specializes in global history. His books include Homo Canis and The New World History.
Introduction
Part I: Monkey Conquers the World
1 We Are the Children of the Climate
2 The End of the Elephants
3 The Wheat Deal
4 Collapse
Part II: Monkey Dominates Nature
5 When Gods Guide the Way
6 All Empires Will Fall
7 After Summer Comes Winter
8 Biological Hazards
9 Demographic Hazards
Part III: Monkey Transforms the Earth
10 The Promises of Quicksilver
11 Cold, Cold Earth
12 Dying for the Forest
13 Unlimited Energy
14 The Cold Chill of Catastrophe
15 A Time of Excess
16 The Blind Flock
17 Tomorrow’s World
Conclusion
Epilogue to the English Edition: Two and a Half Years after the French Edition . . .
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.11.2020 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-226-60912-X / 022660912X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-60912-6 / 9780226609126 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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