Apocalypse how catastrophe transformed our world and can forge new futures
A new view on the human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the climate instability of our present, and a look at how the new tools of archaeology reveal these upheavals as moments that created the world we live in, and continue to offer surprising opportunities for radical cha...
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New York :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2025]
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| Edition: | [Hardcover edition]. |
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Table of Contents:
- The end
- How we misunderstood the apocalypse of human extinction
- How sea level rise spurred ingenuity
- How apocalypse brought people together
- How apocalypses turn inequality into violence
- How society collapses, but civilization survives
- How post-apocalyptic societies reinvent themselves
- How the apocalypse of colonialism has hidden in plain sight
- How slavery created the modern world
- Why we've stayed trapped in the apocalypse-and how we can find our way out
- The beginning.
