The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World

by Frank Uekötter

Environmental challenges are defining the twenty-first century. To fully understand ongoing debates about our current crises--climate change, loss of biological diversity, pollution, extinction, resource woes--means revisiting their origins, in all their complexity. With this ambitious, highly original contribution to the environmental history of global modernity, Frank Uek?tter considers the many ways humans have had an impact on their physical environment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822947560
• ISBN13: 9780822947561
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 848 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"