Description
A sweeping global history of catastrophe, this book examines disasters ranging from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and devastating pandemics to Chernobyl and the COVID-19 crisis. Drawing on history, economics, politics, science, and culture, it explores why societies repeatedly fail to anticipate disasters—and how natural events become magnified by human decisions, institutions, and systems. With characteristic breadth and intellectual ambition, the author places contemporary crises in a long historical perspective while asking what the past can teach us about preparing for an uncertain future.
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paperback
Penguin Publishing Group
Published Jan 1, 2022
512 pages
ISBN: 9780593297391
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Details
First Published
2021
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Doom by Niall Ferguson.