Understanding how shifts in the natural world have shaped history might help us navigate the anxious new era of climate change, according to Oxford University historian Peter Frankopan.
His new book The Earth Transformed: An Untold History takes an epic survey, from the beginning of recorded history to the present day, examining how changing climate has driven the rise and fall of civilisations.
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He is the author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World and The New Silk Roads: The Future and Present of the World.
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