Grand transitions : how the modern world was made

Vaclav Smil

"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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Year of publication:	2023 ; First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback
Authors:	Smil, Vaclav
Publisher:	New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press
Subject:	Zivilisation \| Civilization \| Bevölkerungsentwicklung \| Demographic development \| Wirtschaftsgeschichte \| Economic history \| Weltgeschichte \| World history
Description of contents:	Epochal transitions -- Populations -- Agricultures and diets -- Energies -- Economies -- Environment -- Outcomes and outlooks. Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	xi, 363 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 199-338
ISBN:	978-0-19-769675-0 ; 978-0-19-006066-4 ; 978-0-19-006068-8 ; 978-0-19-754851-6
Other identifiers:	10.1093/oso/9780190060664.001.0001 [DOI]
Classification:	Sozialgeschichte
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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