02304nam a22002297a 4500 20260903122753.0 260903b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780141993867 : Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. : B-2/25, 1st Floor, Arun house, Ansari Road, Darya ganj, New Delhi : 3274 : 28/08/2026 304.28 AMR Amrith, Sunil. The Burning Earth : An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years. / Sunil Amrith. , New Zealand : Penguin Books , 2024. 418p. : 24cm. 559.30 Winner of the British Academy Book Prize 2025**Winner of the the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2025* ‘Dazzling… brilliant… exactly the kind of history that we need on our crisis-ridden planet’ - Tom Simpson, TLSIn this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of the expansion of human freedom and its costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of Spanish silver mining in Peru, British gold mining in South Africa, and oil extraction in Central Asia. He explores the railways and highways that brought humans to new terrains of battle against each other and against 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. He also reveals 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, 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. Environmental History Human Ecology Environmental Crisis Sunil Amrith. BOOK 70688 70688 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-09-03 Raghav Books Pvt. Ptd. 559.30 0 304.28 AMR 31712 2026-09-03 12:28:11 2026-09-03 BOOK