The Burning EarthA brilliant, paradigm shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years In this paradigm shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco cide, of the expansion of human freedom and its costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he