A New Green History Of The World

If there is a single book on the subject to engage the enthusiast, silence the cynic and enlighten the ignoramus, this is it * Observer *
Ponting’s re-evaluation of history is an important antidote to mental troglodytism. It also makes a welcome change from the scatter-gun apocalypse-mongering which has become standard fare in green literature. With luck and foresight, and more books like this, we may yet learn our lesson * Independent on Sunday *
Pioneering…a book good enough to rival the best American products in the field… Clive Ponting has embraced a daunting task with commendable success * Times Literary Supplement *
An ambitious and thought-provoking attempt to rewrite history from an ecological standpoint * Independent *
Large, ambitious and often enthralling, it is a successful attempt to look at the unfolding of world history from an entirely new perspective * Literary Review *

Clive Ponting was until recently Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Wales, Swansea. Available in Pimlico are his most recent books- A New Green History Of The World- The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations; Gunpowder- From the Alchemists of China to the Battlefields of Europe; The Pimlico History of the Twentieth Century; World History- A New Perspective; Thirteen Days- The Road to the First World War; and The Crimean War. He recently took early retirement and now lives on a small Greek island where he is creating a Mediterranean garden and cultivating olives.

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