{"title":"Peter Frankopan","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-earth-transformed-an-untold-history-peter-frankopan-paperback","title":"The Earth Transformed: An Untold History -- Peter Frankopan, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development--and demise--of civilizations across time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Detailing many years of extensive research, endnotes for this edition run to more than 200 pages. They are available online via a link contained in the book.*\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGlobal warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of the Moche civilization in South America that came about because of the cyclical pressures of El Ni to volcanic eruptions in Iceland that affected Egypt and helped bring the Ottoman empire to its knees, climate change and its influences have always been with us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrankopan explains how the Vikings emerged thanks to catastrophic crop failure, why the roots of regime change in eleventh-century Baghdad lay in the collapse of cotton prices resulting from unusual climate patterns, and why the western expansion of the frontiers in North America was directly affected by solar flare activity in the eighteenth century. Again and again, Frankopan shows that when past empires have failed to act sustainably, they have been met with catastrophe. Blending brilliant historical writing and cutting-edge scientific research, \u003ci\u003eThe Earth Transformed\u003c\/i\u003e will radically reframe the way we look at the world and our future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Frankopan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 944\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.17h x 6.10w x 1.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593082133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePETER FRANKOPAN is professor of global history at Oxford University. 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Today they lead to Beijing.\" So argues Peter Frankopan in this revelatory new book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the age of Brexit and Trump, the West is buffeted by the tides of isolationism and fragmentation. Yet to the East, this is a moment of optimism as a new network of relationships takes shape along the ancient trade routes. In \u003ci\u003eThe New Silk Roads\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter Frankopan takes us on an eye-opening journey through the region, from China's breathtaking infrastructure investments to the flood of trade deals among Central Asian republics to the growing rapprochement between Turkey and Russia. 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