In The Earth Transformed<\/em>, Peter Frankopan, one of the world’s leading historians, shows that the natural environment is a crucial, if not the defining, factor in global history \u2013 and not just of humankind. Volcanic eruptions, solar activities, atmospheric, oceanic and other shifts, as well as anthropogenic behaviour, are fundamental parts of the past and the present. In this magnificent and groundbreaking book, we learn about the origins of our species: about the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; about how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state; about how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; about how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. All provide lessons of profound importance as we face a precarious future of rapid global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Taking us from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond, The Earth Transformed<\/em> forces us to reckon with humankind’s continuing efforts to make sense of the natural world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201eThis is epic, gripping, original history that leaps off the page\u201c \u2013 Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland<\/em> About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He is also UNESCO Professor of Silk Roads Studies at King\u2019s College, Cambridge. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World<\/em>, published by Bloomsbury in 2015, has been a global bestseller topping charts around the world. It was No. 1 Sunday Times<\/em> bestseller and remained in the top 10 for nine months after publication. It was named one of the \u2018Books of the Decade\u2019 2010-2020 by the Sunday Times<\/em>. The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World<\/em> was published by Bloomsbury in 2018 and won the Human Sciences prize of the Carical Foundation in 2019. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History<\/em> was published by Bloomsbury in 2023. Named The Times<\/em> History Book of the Year, it was also a Financial Times<\/em>, Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Independent, New Yorker and Le Point Book of the Year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Published: 02 Mar 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pages: 736<\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201eAll Historians aiming to tell a narrative face the problem of when exactly to start it. Only Peter Frankopan would go back 2.5 billion years to the Great Oxidation Event\u201c \u2013 Tom Holland<\/p>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/promenjena_zemlja.jpg?resize=310%2C477&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n