The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

Print length: 432 pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 25 September 2025

Name: The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
SKU: 9780141993867
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SKU: 9780141993867

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Discover ‘The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years’ by Sunil Amrith, a sweeping global history of humanity’s impact on the planet and vice versa. Winner of prestigious awards like the British Academy Book Prize 2025 and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, this book brilliantly connects environment and empire, eco-cide and human freedom. Amrith explores the devastating environmental costs of resource extraction, from silver mines in Peru to oil fields in Central Asia, and examines how wars and imperial expansion irreversibly reshaped our world. He reveals migration as a consequence of environmental harm and argues that understanding our planet’s history is crucial for collective survival. This epic narrative, rich with stories and vivid images, offers vital insights for our crisis-ridden era. This is essential reading for anyone interested in environmental history, climate change, and the complex relationship between humanity and nature.

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