Smil, Vaclav. <br/><br/>
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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<br/><br/>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:&#xA0;Scientific Units and their Multiples and Submultiples -- References -- Index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780190060688 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Neuzeit <br/>Technisches Zeitalter <br/>Zeitenwende<br/>Bevölkerungswachstum
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Civilization, Modern-History. 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Fernzugriff<br/>