The Burning Earth

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Viimeisin historian havainto

29.10.2026

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*Winner of the British Academy Book Prize 2025* *Winner of the the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2025* One of the Observer's 25 Best Books of the Century ‘Dazzling... brilliant... exactly the kind of history that we need on our crisis-ridden planet’ - Tom Simpson, TLS 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 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

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penguin books

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9780141993867