Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How didIslam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabledthe West to... Læs mere
"One of those rare books that’s both sweeping and specific, scholarly and readable…What makes the book stand out is its wealth of historical detail." —Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries.
The definitive environmental history of the twentieth-century world, now updated for the twenty-first