Sunil Amrith

A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years. In 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...

The Burning Earth by Sunil Amrith is a brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years. In this paradigm-shifting global history, Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, and of the expansion of human freedom and its costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich...