Grand transitions : how the modern world was made
Smil, Vaclav.
Grand transitions : how the modern world was made Vaclav Smil - New York : Oxford University, 2021. ©2021. - 1 online resource (385 pages)
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Cover -- Grand Transitions -- Copyright -- Contents -- About this Book -- 1. Epochal Transitions -- 2. Populations -- 3. Agricultures and Diets -- 4. Energies -- 5. Economies -- 6. Environment -- 7. Outcomes and Outlooks -- Appendix: Scientific Units and their Multiples and Submultiples -- References -- Index.
What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics--which have transformed the way we live. Now a fifth transition is underway: the environmental changes that will determine the success or eventual failure of the preceding transitions that have made the world we inhabit today.
9780190060688
Neuzeit
Technisches Zeitalter
Zeitenwende
Bevölkerungswachstum
Civilization, Modern-History.
Fernzugriff
Grand transitions : how the modern world was made Vaclav Smil - New York : Oxford University, 2021. ©2021. - 1 online resource (385 pages)
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
Cover -- Grand Transitions -- Copyright -- Contents -- About this Book -- 1. Epochal Transitions -- 2. Populations -- 3. Agricultures and Diets -- 4. Energies -- 5. Economies -- 6. Environment -- 7. Outcomes and Outlooks -- Appendix: Scientific Units and their Multiples and Submultiples -- References -- Index.
What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics--which have transformed the way we live. Now a fifth transition is underway: the environmental changes that will determine the success or eventual failure of the preceding transitions that have made the world we inhabit today.
9780190060688
Neuzeit
Technisches Zeitalter
Zeitenwende
Bevölkerungswachstum
Civilization, Modern-History.
Fernzugriff