Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made

Author/Contributor(s):	Smil, Vaclav
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	09/01/2023
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.