TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smil,Vaclav
TI  - Grand transitions: how the modern world was made
SN  - 9780190060688
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University
KW  - gnd
KW  - Neuzeit
KW  - Technisches Zeitalter
KW  - Zeitenwende
KW  - Bevölkerungswachstum
KW  - Civilization, Modern-History
KW  - Fernzugriff
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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