Grand transitions : how the modern world was made / Vaclav Smil.
2021
CB357 .S59 2021
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Title
Grand transitions : how the modern world was made / Vaclav Smil.
Author
Smil, Vaclav, author.
ISBN
9780197548516 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
CB357 .S59 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
909.8
Summary
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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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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 14, 2021).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190060664
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