The Burning Earth: A History

by Sunil Amrith

In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of Portuguese silver mining in Peru, British gold mining in South Africa, and oil extraction in Central Asia. He explores the railroads and highways that brought humans...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324007184
• ISBN13: 9781324007180
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.1"